[mythtvnz] HD Homerun

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 09 Feb 2021 23:37:11 +0000, you wrote:

>Well, seems my old SiliconDust HomeRun HDHR3-DT is no more. Appears to have just failed mid recording. I have tried plugging it into another socket and am not getting anything lighting up on the front. Opened it up and don't see anything obvious - other than the lack of spaces between words. How much extra would that have cost? Anyway - no burnt patches or melted bits that I can see.
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>I will try to get hold of another power supply and test that, but I'm guessing it is gone. Must be getting on for 10 years old.
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>So, off to the Nice Gear web site and ... oh. Well, Learning Developments 'feel privileged to be able to continue their fantastic product range'. But alas no HD HomeRuns listed on the web site.
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>Does anyone know where I would get a new one, or if there is a similar product available? I did like not having to install the card and all that hassle, as far as I can tell, the new model of this is only available online, and is over $US200. I can go buy a Panasonic 1TB twin tuner PVR from JB Hifi for that. I have used them and they are pretty hard to use, but .... I could get it today.
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>Anyway - my Myth backend is a AMD Phenom II X6 1035T with four gigs of DDR3 ram and a 2TB disk for recordings. It won't have USB3. Anyone have any suggestions, they'd be most helpful.
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>Cheers

There is a long history of the plug packs for HDHomeruns failing.
People report replacing them and having the new one fail and the tuner
still working fine when they get a further replacement.  So you should
see if you have another plug pack with the right or better ratings to
temporarily put on it to test if it still works.  If so, buy a good
quality replacement plug pack.  I have been buying replacement plug
packs for my devices from Jaycar, where they are not particularly
cheap, but I have yet to have one of the replacements fail.