[mythtvnz] Haupauge Nova-TD500

Sun Apr 15 11:24:51 BST 2012

Hi All,

Ok, thanks for all the responses, it's been interesting to read them.

So, after reading all of them, I decided to go through all the things one
more time, I hate forking out money when it's not needed. So here my
findings.

I have the 2040:8400 device ID card, not sure if that's a "buggy" one, but
just for the record. Also loading firmware v 1.20 which seems to be the
most recent and what most are using looking at the logs posted.

So I have climbed on the roof, inspected the aerial and connectors. Aerial
is a bit rusted but connectors and pcb's are remarkable clean. It looks
like some professional service guy must have installed it looking at the
crimped connectors in the diplexer. However, he did a crappy job as the
cables were loose in the connectors. So I ditched the diplexer,
disconnected the VHF aerial so now have a cable straight from the PVR to
the UHF antenna, no splits (and no masthead amp).

The TD500 had no reception anymore whatsoever, the Freeview STB still fine
with no dropouts. Analog UHF channels were fine, VHF were gone (as
expected).

No I happen to get hold of a HVR-4400 so popped that in, and watching
currently all HD (TV3 as well) no problems, no glitches. TD-500 still no-go
not even a partly lock.

So to me this looks like the final nail in the coffin for the TD500. Maybe
I just have a faulty unit? I'll see what the HRV4400 does for a while but
will need Dual Tuner eventually so I can move the dish to D2 permanently.

As a side question, I have also never been able to get a propper BER of any
DVB card in linux.  (femon -H -a 3 -f 1)  It currently lists signal 21%,
snr 100% BER 0 unc 0  FE_HAS_LOCK but it always seems that.  Is there any
other way to get the BER from the card?

So.. if anyone is keen on a TD500, make me an offer :)

Cheers, and thanks for all the responses!

Johan

> I've had problems with mine but have been running it for the past few
> years reasonably well on Ubuntu (currently 11.04)
> I only have one aerial attached - I'm pretty sure I discovered that
> attaching two caused more problems than just one.  Now and again (once a
> month probably) I still have problems which I have never been able to
> pin down to card, aerial or wiring.
>
> I also have a HVR3000.
>
> my /etc/modprobe.d/options-dvb.conf contains
>
> #Options to fix the order of the /dev/dvb cards
> options dvb_usb_dib0700 adapter_nr=0,1
> options cx88-dvb adapter_nr=2,3
> #enable LNA
> options dvb-usb-dib0700 force_lna_activation=1
>
> >From memory firmware (for the TD500) was an issue at some point with at
> least one firmware version and I thought I was running an oldish
> firmware but this may not be the case any more.  Following is an extract
> of the output from dmesg
>
> [   15.982083] dib0700: loaded with support for 15 different
> device-types
> [   15.982326] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx)' in cold
> state, will try to load a firmware
> [   16.080150] wm8775 0-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (cx88[0])
> [   16.086731] cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
> [   16.086765] cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
> [   16.086795] cx88[0]/0: registered device radio0
> [   16.324217] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file
> 'dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw'
> [   16.383325] cx88/2: cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.8 loaded
> [   16.383333] cx88/2: registering cx8802 driver, type: dvb access:
> shared
> [   16.383353] cx88[0]/2: subsystem: 0070:1402, board: Hauppauge
> WinTV-HVR3000 TriMode Analog/DVB-S/DVB-T [card=53]
> [   16.383355] cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based DVB/ATSC card
> [   16.383357] cx8802_alloc_frontends() allocating 2 frontend(s)
> [   16.400660] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) ->
> IRQ 16
> [   16.400669] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> [   16.400674] vgaarb: device changed decodes:
> PCI:0000:01:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
> [   16.400851] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  270.41.06
> Mon Apr 18 14:53:56 PDT 2011
> [   16.527999] dib0700: firmware started successfully.
> [   16.720862] CX24123: detected CX24123
> [   16.747037] EXT3-fs: barriers not enabled
> [   16.762426] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> [   16.762763] EXT3-fs (sda7): using internal journal
> [   16.762767] EXT3-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
> [   16.875776] tuner-simple 0-0061: attaching existing instance
> [   16.875780] tuner-simple 0-0061: couldn't set type to 63. Using 78
> (Philips FMD1216MEX MK3 Hybrid Tuner) instead
> [   16.878138] DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0])
> [   16.878141] DVB: registering adapter 2 frontend 0 (Conexant
> CX24123/CX24109)...
> [   16.879309] DVB: registering adapsoter 2 frontend 1 (Conexant CX22702
> DVB-T)...
> [   17.030228] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx)' in warm
> state.
> [   17.030286] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to
> the software demuxer.
> [   17.030455] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-TD-500
> (84xxx))
> [   17.286624] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (DiBcom 7000PC)...
> [   17.517285] DiB0070: successfully identified
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>
>
>
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