[mythtvnz] HVR-2200 Not finding channels...

[Curtis Walker]

Try using a directory that you KNOW you have correct permissions for,
and is on a good known drive e.g. "/home/rob/myth-test"


On 19 October 2011 20:09,  <rob at webworxshop.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks for the reponses last night, I have made some progress. I found
> that I was still missing firmware for one of the chips on the HVR-2200
> when I tried the 'scan' utility. Adding that firmware allows me to pick
> up some channels, although what channels are picked up seems to vary
> from scan to scan! I am able to pick up the TVNZ channels reliably.
>
> My next problem is that when trying to watch TV I get less than a
> second of video before the picture freezes. After about a minute the
> frontend then falls back to the menu with the message "Video frame
> buffering failed too many times". There doesn't appear to be anything in
> the logs, but the stdout of mythfrontend shows that it is waiting for
> files which aren't there, e.g. /mnt/recordings/livetv/1001_<some
> timestamp>.mpg - there are several of these entries.
>
> Looking in /mnt/recordings/livetv:
>
> [robert at laforge ~]$ ls -la /mnt/recordings/livetv/
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 mythtv root  4096 Oct 19 20:02 .
> drwxr-xr-x 5 mythtv root  4096 Oct 19 19:51 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv users    0 Oct 19 18:36 1010_20111019183639.mpg
>
> Shows only one file!
>
> Anyone got any idea why the other files are not getting written?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob
>
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:37:16 +1300, Mike Brady wrote:
>> Quoting rob at webworxshop.com:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm having trouble finding channels with my new HVR-2200. I've
>>> followed
>>> the instructions/experiences of members of this list in earlier
>>> threads
>>> to get the module with the correct firmware. I now have the
>>> /dev/dvb/adapter[1 & 2] directories populated (adapter 0 is my DVB-S
>>> card).
>>>
>>> In mythtv-setup I've selected 'DVB Capture Card' with device
>>> /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0, which gives me the frontend ID of: NXP
>>> TDA10048HN DVB-T. I added the other tuner in the same manner. In
>>> video
>>> sources I added a new source and set the listings grabber to be EIT.
>>> I
>>> also set the channel frequency table as newzealand. In input
>>> connections
>>> I've associated adapter1 with my new video source and tried to scan.
>>>
>>> In the scan setting window I select the correct input, desired
>>> services
>>> as TV, scan type Full TV and country as New Zealand. Scanning then
>>> proceeds but each channel times out without finding anything even
>>> though
>>> I'm getting up to 99% signal strenth on some channels.
>>>
>>> I'm sure I must be doing something wrong here as the same antenna
>>> output works with the Freeview tuner in my TV.
>>>
>>> Any help appreciated,
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
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>>
>> The frequencies to use depend on where you are.  I had to use the
>> nz-AucklandInfill ones from here
>> http://linuxtv.org/hg/dvb-apps/file/887beb83943a/util/scan/dvb-t to
>> get mine to work.
>>
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