[mythtv-users] FireWire channel changer crapped out

[Greg]

On 7/31/20 7:04 PM, John Hoyt wrote:
>
>      I'm fortunate enough to have another Ubuntu box, so I ordered an
>     inexpensive PCI-E firewire card for it, which allowed me to test. 
>     On the test box plugreport showed the set-top-box.  The card came
>     with a full-size to mini-size firewire cable, which I connected to
>     the other 1394 socket on my original machine, and voila,
>     plugreport on that machine showed the set-top-box.  So it seems
>     that either the mini-size socket on my original machine went bad,
>     or the mini-to-mini cable went bad.  I have no idea how that can
>     happen to things sitting there undisturbed, but there you have
>     it.  So this is SOLVED.
>
> Out of curiosity, what firewire card and more specifically what 
> chipset is it using?
>
> In the past I could only ever get TI-based firewire chipsets to work 
> reliably in Linux.  All of my current STBs have abandoned firewire, 
> but knowing what cards work in Linux could be useful if I end up 
> switching providers to ones with firewire in the future.  I found 
> using the firewire channel changing far more reliable / easier to 
> configure across OS upgrades than the lirc based approach I currently 
> employ.
>
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I still use Firewire. The card in my machine is a Texas Instrument 
Tsb43ab23, thats what hardinfo reports.. The bad part of using FW is 
most STB's only have 1 fw port. You loose the ability to daisy chain. If 
some one has been able to run two stb's with single ports,I would love 
to hear about it....

Lirc is a no go for me. I have tried many times,but fail every time.



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