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

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Thu Apr 20 12:16:26 UTC 2017


On 20/04/17 12:37, Damian wrote:
>
>
> On 20/04/2017 12:20, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 12:14:05 +0100, you wrote:
>>
>>>> No, nothing found at all.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> MythTV can see the tuner, but a scan produces nothing.
>>> I vaguely recall that a firmware blob is required, usually provided
>>> in an ubuntu package
>>>
>>> try this:
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree linux-firmware
>>>
>>> reboot or unplug replug the tuner and try again.
>>>
>>> There will also be a line in dmesg if the tuner can’t find the firmware.
>>>
>>> Andre
>>>
>>> PS I do have a T292e, I was just being lazy with the e
>> This page gives details on the firmware required, and on what you
>> should be seeing in the logs:
>>
>> https://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCTV_Systems_tripleStick_T2_(292e)
>
> Stephen,
>
> I've seen that page before, but didn't understand any of it! :-)
>
> It seems to say that drivers are included with kernel 3.16 and I'm way
> above that.
>
> Then it mentions firmware, but I have no idea if I should be touching
> that (and if so, how?) or leaving it alone as drivers etc should already
> be on my system.
>
> Damian

I wouldn't have expected Myth to have scanned without the firmware in 
place, but this does sound as if it could be the key.

Have you tried, from a terminal,

dmesg | grep firmware

and

dmesg | grep adapter

and does it look as if the results are ok?

John





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