[mythtvnz] Does HVR-2200 have FM radio support?

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Stephen Worthington
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:14:42 +1200, you wrote:
>
>>On 08/09/11 15:47, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>> My mother wants to be able to record FM radio on her MythTV box, so I
>>> am looking at what support there is for doing this.  I found this
>>> page:
>>>
>>>    http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Fm_radio
>>>
>>> which shows how to hack it together if there is a card with /dev/radio
>>> device support.  If I want to put a PVR-150 in her box to do that, I
>>> need a PCI slot, and both are full at present.  So I was wondering if
>>> the HVR-2200 has FM support in Linux.  Is there anyone out there who
>>> has an HVR-2200 working, who could do:
>>>
>>>    ls -al /dev/rad*
>>>
>>> and see if they have a /dev/radio device?
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to work out what hardware is attached to any
>>> given /dev device, to make sure that a /dev/radio device is actually
>>> on an HVR-2200 card and not some other hardware?
>>>
>>Nope. No /dev/radio on my system (Ubuntu 10.04, kernel
>>2.6.32-33-generic). I'm using Steven Toth's firmware version 1.0.3. I'm
>>pretty sure his release notes said only DVB-T works and nothing else.
>>
>>I suppose you'll never get any access to or info about the device if the
>>firmware doesn't support it.
>
> Thanks for that.  It looks like I will need to use Plan B then, and
> add a USB DVB-T tuner and replace one PCI DVB-T card with a PVR-150.
>
> Has anyone ever used the FM tuner on a PVR-150?  Does it record with
> decent quality?  My mother wants to record opera from the local
> Gramophone Room station as well as National radio, so quality needs to
> be good enough for that.


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