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

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 20:04:33 +1200, you wrote:

>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.
>
>
>National Radio is available on freeview.

Yes, but does MythTV support DVB-T radio?  Last time I tried, it did
not work.

In any case, the FM signal should give superior sound quality, if the
tuner is good.  The AAC compression used on DVB-T is not very good for
music, OK for voice.