[mythtv-users] HDPVR intermittent failure

[DryHeat122]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 1:07 PM DryHeat122 <dryheat122 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 9:44 AM DryHeat122 <dryheat122 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 4:12 AM John Hoyt <john.hoyt at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> That is not for the inexperienced or faint of heart to install and
>>>> configure. It scares me a little :-) I can't imagine what it was like to
>>>> develop it!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Configuration is actually not as scary as it looks at first.  Also, it
>>> was quite worth it as I've found my colossus to work with higher
>>> reliability and better quality than my HDPVR ever did.
>>>
>>> If you're running  Ubuntu - you can use the compiled binary on my
>>> Launchpad ppa to skip the compile steps -
>>> https://launchpad.net/~john-hoyt/+archive/ubuntu/hauppaugeusb
>>>
>>
>> I decided to try this with my current Myth setup, and it looks like you
>> don't have a version for Ubuntu 16.04.  So I did the compile myself.
>> Everything was going great until the very end of the make and I got:
>>
>> g++ -g -c -Wall -std=c++11 -fdiagnostics-color -DBOOST_LOG_DYN_LINK
>> -pthread -m64 -g -O3 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDRIVER_BUILD -DHAUPPAUGE -DHCW_E5BDA
>> `pkg-config --cflags libusb-1.0` -I.. -I./Hauppauge/Common
>> -I./Wrappers/linux -I./Hauppauge/Common/FX2API
>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/ADV7842 -I./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/ADV7842/RX
>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/ADV7842/RX/LIB
>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/ADV7842/RX/HAL
>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/ADV7842/RX/HAL/4G
>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/ADV7842/RX/HAL/4G/ADV7842/HAL
>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/ADV7842/RX/HAL/4G/ADV7842/MACROS
>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/Rx -I./Hauppauge/Common/EncoderDev
>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/EncoderDev/HAPIHost
>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/EncoderDev/HAPIHost/MChip `pkg-config --cflags
>> libusb-1.0` ./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/audio_CS8416.cpp -o audio_CS8416.o
>> ./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/audio_CS8416.cpp: In member function ‘bool
>> audio_CS8416::DeviceIO::write(audio_CS8416::DeviceIO::Reg, const uint8_t*,
>> size_t)’:
>> ./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/audio_CS8416.cpp:173:39: error: ‘memcpy’ was not
>> declared in this scope
>>          memcpy(sendbuff + 1, data, len);
>>                                        ^
>> Makefile:61: recipe for target 'audio_CS8416.o' failed
>> make: *** [audio_CS8416.o] Error 1
>>
>> What to do?
>>
>
> I know next to nothing about cpp but I looked up the error, and it seems
> to be caused by failure to declare #include <cstring>  I added that to the
> top of  audio_CS8416.cpp and the build completed without errors.
> Perhaps @JohnPoet would like to add this to the patches?
>
> Bottom line is that I now have it working.  Here are a couple of notes for
> others trying this:
>
> When I first connected the HDPVR2 the light was rapid flashing blue which
> according to docs means the machine can't "see" it.  When I tried to record
> I got a repeated error:
>
> 2020-07-22T12:15:53.632520 ERRR <main> USBif.cpp:485 (controlMessage)
> cannot send control message: No such device (it may have been disconnected)
>
> But after exiting the commsn the light was solid blue.  So I tried again
> and got
>
> 2020-07-22T12:16:42.638981 CRIT <main> Logger.cpp:83 (setLogLevelFilter)
> Changing loglevel to NOTC
> 2020-07-22T12:16:42.639124 CRIT <main> hauppauge2.cpp:347 (main) Starting
> up
> 2020-07-22T12:16:42.650486 CRIT <main> hauppauge2.cpp:360 (main)
> Initializing [Bus: 2, Port: 6] E524-00-00ABAE4A
> [long pause]
> 2020-07-22T12:17:05.061224 CRIT <main> HauppaugeDev.cpp:392
> (init_component) Cannot determine video mode.
> 2020-07-22T12:17:05.362389 CRIT <main> hauppauge2.cpp:476 (main) Done.
>
> I discovered that the second to last error means there is no video
> signal.  My cable box was off.  After turning it on I got a recording.
>
> For the devs, I did get one error:
>
> 2020-07-22T12:50:50.152620 ERRR <main> FX2Device.cpp:115 (I2CWriteRead)
> I2C: Improper answer: status 07
>
> I don't know what it means, but it didn't prevent the recording.
>
> Thanks for all the help everyone!
>

Sooooo...having the HDPVR2 making test recordings, I set it up in Myth per
the instructions in the https://github.com/jpoet/HauppaugeUSB.  When I try
to record anything, say from the program guide, it says "recorder offline"
and I can find nothing in the frontend or backend logs about it.  However,
the recorder shows the half-green lite indicating it's ready and I can
still do test recordings.  How to  troubleshoot?
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