[mythtv-users] cannot schedule both tuners on AVerMedia Twinstar

Eyal Lebedinsky eyal at eyal.emu.id.au
Sat Jul 31 01:29:56 UTC 2021


I had this USB tuner for a long time but decided to use it again now. Plugged it in and configured
the capture-card and input-connection. All tuners (there are 5 others) show up and can be tuned into in WatchTV.

The wiki says "unsupported" but it was last updated in 2014 so probably out of date?

The problem is with scheduling. I have the two Twinstar tuners set to almost the same priority.
myth refuses to use both, so (depending on the order I set) it will allow scheduling from one
and will not schedule on the other at all. I can change the priority to have it pick the other
and it then will never use the first.

I am sure that this device has two independent tuners. It shows up as two devices in /dev/dvb/.
It shows up as two in mythtv status (actually each tuner shows up as 4 by reclimit).

Looking at mythtv coming up I notice:

CoreContext cardutil.cpp:1173 (SetDeliverySystem) - CardUtil[29]: Set delivery system: DVB-T
CoreContext cardutil.cpp:1173 (SetDeliverySystem) - CardUtil[33]: Set delivery system: DVB-T
CoreContext cardutil.cpp:1173 (SetDeliverySystem) - CardUtil[37]: Set delivery system: DVB-T
CoreContext cardutil.cpp:1173 (SetDeliverySystem) - CardUtil[41]: Set delivery system: DVB-T
CoreContext cardutil.cpp:1173 (SetDeliverySystem) - CardUtil[45]: Set delivery system: DVB-T
CoreContext cardutil.cpp:1173 (SetDeliverySystem) - CardUtil[50]: Set delivery system: DVB-T
CoreContext recorders/dvbchannel.cpp:699 (Tune) - DVBChan[50](/dev/dvb/adapter-OPEN-ELEC-6/frontend0): Next tuning after less than 1000ms. Delaying by 1000ms
CoreContext cardutil.cpp:1173 (SetDeliverySystem) - CardUtil[51]: Set delivery system: DVB-T

The first cards (29-45) are the "older" USB tuners, 50 is the TwinStar does not schedule and
51 is the other tuner on the Twinstar that does schedule.

I looked over my settings and they look good to me.
I do notice One unusual message (see below). Is it related?

Bootup messages that may be related:

usb 1-4.4.2: New USB device found, idVendor=07ca, idProduct=0825, bcdDevice= 2.01
usb 1-4.4.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-4.4.2: Product: A825
usb 1-4.4.2: Manufacturer: AVerMedia TECHNOLOGIES, Inc.
usb 1-4.4.2: SerialNumber: 0000000000000

dvbdev: dvb_create_media_entity: media entity 'dvb-demux' registered.
usb 1-4.4.2: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'AVerMedia Twinstar (A825)' in warm state
dvb_usb_af9035 1-4.4.2:1.0: Device may have issues with I2C read operations. Enabling fix. <<<<<<<<<<
usb 1-4.4.2: dvb_usb_v2: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer
dvbdev: DVB: registering new adapter (AVerMedia Twinstar (A825))
usb 1-4.4.2: media controller created
dvbdev: DVB: registering new adapter (AVerMedia Twinstar (A825))

$ uname -a
Linux e7.eyal.emu.id.au 5.13.5-200.fc34.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 25 16:19:01 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ mythbackend --version
[see attached file as requested]

TIA

-- 
Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)
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