[mythtvnz] Tuning FreeView - can't lock transponder and FRONTEND DEVICE busy?

[Bob]

On Tuesday 07 August 2007 20:46, Craig Whitmore wrote:
> > Getting frontend event
> > FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI
> > FE_HAS_SYNC
> > Event:  Frequency: 11756000
> >        SymbolRate: 22500000
> >        FEC_inner:  3
> >
> > Bit error rate: 0
> > Signal strength: 62208
> > SNR: 62495
> > FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI
> > FE_HAS_SYNC
> > frontend: 8FRONTEND DEVICE: : Device or resource busy
>
> This is normal with one of these cards. (the drivers are a little bugy)
>
> :-(  Don't fret.. just continue. the 8FRONTEND DEVICE: : Device or resource
>
> busy is just a bug in the drivers and actually means you have locked into a
> correct freq.

Thanks, Craig.  That certainly seems to be the case with the FRONTEND DEVICE 
error, but... I still don't know why I'm not getting a signal from the TVNZ 
transponder.

# dvbtune -f 1156000 -s 22500 -p h -m 2> /dev/null &

followed by:

# dvbscan -c -u

lists TV3, C4, a couple of Radio NZ so I seem to have a old (standard?) LNB.


However, if I do a:

# dvbtune -f 1183000 -s 22500 -p h -m 2> /dev/null &

followed by:

# dvbscan -c -u

I get:

using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
main:2263: FATAL: failed to open '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0': 16 Device or 
resource busy

I get the same if I pass -f 1733000 to dvbtune (which should be what I'd need 
with a newer LNB).



Any ideas?


Thanks
Bob