[mythtvnz] manually resetting the tuner card

[Steven Ellis]

On 23/05/2009, at 12:01 PM, Mark van Dijk wrote:

> I have a Hauppague PVR-500 card (dual analog).  Occasionally,  
> something
> seems to go wrong with one of the tuners, such as:
>   1) no sound
>   2) ok sound, but extremely poor picture quality
>   3) pure static (both pic and sound)
>   4) no recording file at all (i.e. MythTv has a recording entry in  
> the
> DB, but no MPEG file on disk)
>
> This is only very occasionally (maybe once every 2 weeks) - and
> generally (though not always) seems to occur after my box has been
> running for more than a day or two.  a simple reboot normally fixes  
> the
> issue immediately.  Funny thing is that when the issue occurs, the  
> other
> tuner continues to work as normal.  Once the issue starts, it will not
> go away on its own, and from then on, any recordings that use that  
> tuner
> are no good.  This has been an issue through several clean  
> installations
> of Mythbuntu (from 7.10 to 9.04).
>
> It is entirely possible that I have a faulty motherboard (a very old
> Asus A7N8X-deluxe).  I have had issues for years with USB devices  
> under
> both Linux and Windows on this machine...
>
> Is it possible to do a software reset of the tuner card somehow so  
> that
> i don't have to reboot the machine?  If so, then perhaps i can get
> MythTv to reset the card before each recording.
>
>

Try asking on the LinuxMedia mailing list as Hans Verkil who wrote the  
driver is usually there.

Sadly I don't think you can. I spent a bunch of time trying to resolve  
these sorts of issues, and Hans has put a lot of work arounds in the  
driver, but it still occasionally goes wrong.

Steve


Steven Ellis - Technical Director
OpenMedia Limited
email   - steven at openmedia.co.nz
website - http://www.openmedia.co.nz

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