[mythtvnz] HVR3000 & HVR4000 mythtv-setup Device confusion

[Craig Whitmore]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graeme Woollett" <graeme.joy at paradise.net.nz>
To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] HVR3000 & HVR4000 mythtv-setup Device confusion


>
>
>
> >If you have 2 cards then
> >/dev/dvb/adapter0/... is card 1
> >/dev/dvb/adapter1/.. is card 2
>
> How do I tell mythtv about these, the only choice I seem to have is
> frontends (DVBT || S) or different types of capture cards...
>
> >you will only have 1 frontend per card (most likely the DVB-S) which
> is the
> >default.
>
> OK so a frontend is DVB-S || T
> But how do you tell mythtv which adaptor is which??


When you load the modules in you have to choose the type of frontend you 
want to use (either DVB-S or DVB-T without the multi frontend patches which 
are not tested properly)

set
options cx88-dvb frontend=0  (this is the default for DVB-S)
options cx88-dvb frontend=1 (this will give you DVB-T)

The problem is this will be used for both cards. so you will get DVB-S for 
both of DVB-T for both :-(

So by default adding the HVR3000 you'll get one more Card for DVB-S 
Recording only.. When you add a card in mythtv-setup you should be able to 
choose between card 0 and card 1

>
> >Check out http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-4000
>
> >which includes the latest drivers (but you'll only get 1 frontend per
> card)
>
> I had the HVR4000 card first and this works fine, Am I right in my
> assumption that the HVR3000 is supported already in Ubuntu Gutsy?
>
>
> >Also check
> >http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2008-January/023416.html

I have no idea what additions for the kernel that this distro has but the 
standard kernels only has HVR3000 support and no HVR-4000 support. better to 
download latest 2.6.24 kernel and patch it. "default" kernels IMHO are not 
very good
The wiki I've updated myself should be pretty simple to follow (but this 
doesn't include multi DVB-S/DVB-T at the same time yet)

Thanks