[mythtv-users] How to tell if HD PVR is still working?

[Greg Oliver]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi Paul,
>
> Tuesday, January 17, 2017, 12:51:31 AM, you wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>
>> My OS hard drive failed so I put a new drive in an installed fedora
>> on it. After I installed mythtv (which was working perfectly prior
>> to the OS disk failing) and restored from my backup db files I
>> noticed that the HD PVR doesn’t seem to be working. I don’t get a
>> /dev/video0 and I noticed that it isn’t showing up in the lsusb output (which I think it should).
>
>> Is there any way to tell if it has stopped working? The power is
>> on, I have tried multiple USB ports and it still doesn’t show up. It
>> is many years old, so it could have died but it’s hard to tell.
>
>> Thanks for any help!
>
> Try a fresh power supply!? I supply many devices on 5 or 12 volt from
> my machine!

Yep - I had that exact error 3 weeks ago and swapped the power supply.
Fixed it.  Just sounds coincidental that 2 things happened at once.  I
just went and bought a universal from Fry's..

I think Silicon Dust and Happauge must make a lot of money from people
getting them to replace whole units when the cheap ass supplies they
ship fail - it's really disturbing the rate of failuers on both
manufacturer's selected power supplies.