[mythtv-users] Best tuner for Myth/ATSC? WinTV-dualHD TV Tuner not found.

[blisbell .]

It is not good practice to mix ubuntu ppas with debian an vice-versa but
having said that change the ppa file to zesty instead of artful, it just
went beta this week so they may not have the ppa setup yet.

On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 8:38 PM, A. F. Cano <afc at shibaya.lonestar.org> wrote:

>
> Thanks for replying.  Based on your recommendations and that from other
> respondents (thank you to all!) I have ordered a HDHR Connect, out of
> stock so I still don't have it, and a WinTV-dualHD TV Tuner.  This one
> I have already received, but...
>
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 09:31:45AM -0600, Curtis Gedak wrote:
> > ...
> > B)  WinTV-dualHD TV Tuner
> > http://hauppauge.com/site/products/data_dualhd.html
> >
> > If you are open to upgrading your GNU/Linux and MythTV installation,
> > then this USB option provides 2 ATCS tuners.
>
> One tuner was quite limiting, so I decided to go with this one.
> >
> > Note that the Hauppauge site indicates that they support the above two
> > tuners via a Personal Package Archive (PPA) for *ubuntu 16.04 and 17.04.
> >
> > http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/linux.html
> > ...
>
> The above notwithstanding, I'm having difficulties.
>
> Is anyone using the Hauppauge WinTV-dualHD (lsusb says it's a 955D)
> with MythTV, under Debian)?  under Ubuntu?
>
> I've done everything they say in the above page, both under Debian 8
> and Debian 9 and the packages don't seem to be available any more.
>
>   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:b-rad/kernel+mediatree+hauppauge
>   sudo apt-get update
>   sudo apt-get install linux-image-mediatree
>   sudo apt-get install linux-headers-mediatree
>
> The update fails with the following messages and thus the subsequent
> installs also fail.
>
> Debian 8 (jessie):
>
> W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/b-rad/kernel+mediatree+
> hauppauge/ubuntu/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found
>
> Debian 9 (stretch)
>
> W: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/b-rad/kernel+mediatree+
> hauppauge/ubuntu artful Release' does not have a Release file.
> N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore
> potentially dangerous to use.
> N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user
> configuration details.
> W: GPG error: http://www.deb-multimedia.org stretch InRelease: The
> following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not
> available: NO_PUBKEY 5C808C2B65558117
> W: The repository 'http://www.deb-multimedia.org stretch InRelease' is
> not signed.
> N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore
> potentially dangerous to use.
> N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user
> configuration details.
> E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/b-rad/kernel+mediatree+
> hauppauge/ubuntu/dists/artful/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found
>
> In other parts of the above page, it mentions patching kernels, but there
> is
> mention of kernel 3.16 (which is what's on Debian 8) and 4.4 (Debian 9 has
> 4.9) so there should be support already built-in.
>
> lsusb recognizes the device in both jessie and stretch.  Myth 0.27 that was
> working fine with the old OnAir Creator, doesn't see it.  I deleted the old
> tuner and created a new one, but mythtv-setup doesn't seem to find the
> tuner.
>
> I have tried to compile myth 0.29 on Debian 9 and after many tries I'm
> stuck
> with errors on the zeromq module.  See a separate posting with title:
>
> Mythtv 0.29 compilation on Debian 9 fails.
>
> for the details.  So, at this point I can't do more with 0.29.
>
> General questions:
>
> Is a driver specific to this tuner needed? one that supports multiple
> Mauppauge tuners? where could such a driver be found? (I couldn't find
> it at the above page), or is the support for all Hauppauge tuners
> already built-in in kernels 4.4 and later, like the linux support page
> seems to imply?
>
> Should Myth find this tuner just based on the usb info that the system
> knows
> already (per the lsusb command)? if so, what specific commands/data do I
> need
> to enter into mythtv-setup?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Autustine.
>
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