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

[rob at webworxshop.com]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:55:28 +1300, David Moore wrote:
> On 19/10/11 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.
>>
> You may still not have the right mix of firmware and driver versions.
> I'm using a recent set of drivers from linuxtv.org plus
> dvb-fe-tda10048-1.0.fw plus NXP7164-2010-03-10.1.fw. I can't find any
> references to firmware for the TDA18271 tuner so I guess it doesn't 
> need
> any.
>
> Maybe try this to see what's loading at boot:
> dmesg | grep -iE 'tda|saa|dvb|tv'
>
> There is also a ton of debug info available with the saa7164 driver 
> but
> it can burn up disk space very quickly if you turn on all the debug 
> options.
>

I was missing the dvb-fe-tda10048-1.0.fw firmware last night, but both 
are now in place. I'll try your command when I get chance, just to make 
sure, but I'm more concerned about the antenna connection now.

> They only get stored in the one livetv directory on my system. There 
> are
> settings for "aging out" the livetv recordings in the frontend under
> Utilities/Setup>Setup>TV Settings>General. From recent use I can 
> confirm
> that live recordings do not deleted before the max age time unless 
> you
> run low on disk space.
>
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