[mythtv-users] [SOLVED-ish] Thinking of moving on from MythTV ... I found the main problem, but still have 292e woes

[Damian]

On 20/04/2017 12:14, Andre MythTV wrote:
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>> No, nothing found at all.
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>> Unplugged the 292e, and plugged one of the old SD tuners in (same USB port and same aerial cable), deleted all tuners from MythTV again, added the new one and the scan worked fine.
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>> MythTV can see the tuner, but a scan produces nothing.
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> I vaguely recall that a firmware blob is required, usually provided in an ubuntu package
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> try this:
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> sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree linux-firmware
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> reboot or unplug replug the tuner and try again.
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> There will also be a line in dmesg if the tuner can’t find the firmware.
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> Andre

Thanks Andre,

Any idea what the likelihood is of this working? I'm reluctant to do 
anything that could mess up a system that's working. HD films are 
important to us. HD TV would be nice, but SD is fine if it just doesn't 
want to play ball. :-)

Thanks,
Damian