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Users / wintv nova-se2 on lmce 0810: tuning failed

« on: September 19, 2010, 07:27:22 pm »

tried now for over 2 days to get channel-scan working on my core. LMCE-Wiki does say that this card works out of the box since 0810 alpha. I'm using latest install from DVD.

dmesg does output:

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[   13.762427] cx88[0]: subsystem: 0070:9202, board: Hauppauge Nova-S-Plus DVB-S [card=37,autodetected], frontend(s): 1
[   13.919696] tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards ATSC/DVB Digital (eeprom 0x80)
[   14.923963] cx88/2: cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.8 loaded
[   14.923970] cx88/2: registering cx8802 driver, type: dvb access: shared
[   14.923978] cx88[0]/2: subsystem: 0070:9202, board: Hauppauge Nova-S-Plus DVB-S [card=37]
[   14.923984] cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based DVB/ATSC card
[   15.063640] DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0])
[   15.063648] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Conexant CX24123/CX24109).

I did stop vdr and then tried a

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scan -o vdr /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-s/Astra-19.2E > channels2.conf

and get:

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using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
initial transponder 12551500 V 22000000 5
>>> tune to: 12551:v:S0.0W:22000:
WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
>>> tune to: 12551:v:S0.0W:22000: (tuning failed)
WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
ERROR: initial tuning failed
dumping lists (0 services)
Done.

any help or hint would be very appreciated!
Thx in advance

thomas

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Users / lightning device in floorplan

« on: February 22, 2009, 05:45:23 pm »

Hi everybody,

I want to activate (on/off) my blinds via floorplan items. The control is done via RS232 (GSD device). The blinds work already by scenario. Now I would like to add an item on floorplan which can switch the blinds (on / off) and send the GSD-command. Whatever I do so far I cannot get devices in lightning category of Floorplan-Editor.

Can anybody tell me about the right way to get an on/off device in Floorplan-Editor which sends a command to a GSD device?

Thx,
thomas

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Users / X dies after watching TV module with BadRequest

« on: January 03, 2009, 08:52:02 pm »

I have a tv capturing card in core and watch TV on another MD. I can watch TV as long as I like... when I stop TV then after some minutes X crashes. I searched forum and internet but couldn't yet find anything about it - hope somebody has a hint:

It seems just before it dies I get this line in the log for pluto/35_LaunchOrbiter.sh.log of that MD:

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05      01/03/09 18:43:28.824           ^[[33;1merror_code==1 => ErrorText=='BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)' ^[[0m^[[32m// bool X11wrapper::Mouse_Grab(Window, Window)^[[0m^[[0m <0xb7246b90>


thx in advance for any help,
regards,
thomas

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Users / TV control hide in background

« on: November 08, 2008, 09:59:18 am »

Hi,

have a touchscreen with basic UI. When I do LiveTV and I do a click then the controls are supposed to show up. I cannot see them but they work (I just don't know/see where I click...). I still see liveTV but somehow magic the controls must be in background but valid. Seems to me very strange.

Had anybody idea where to start checking?
Btw... will there be update version of lmce in future?

thx
tömy

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Users / mythtv, vdr, touchscreen and view from other media director??

« on: July 09, 2008, 09:50:17 pm »

I'm already veeery happy with my home automation... now I struggled with TV drivers and worked as well, but I have now doubts if my usage intention is possible...

In some lonely room in lower story I have my lmce server and there the dvb-s cable is availabe... vdr works on media director in this server already (mythtv not yet although it found all channels in scan... but that's probably another topic).

what I would like to do:
in my living room (which has a media director without TV card) I would like to view liveTV stream and listen to radio programs, so that the server streams video to another mediadirector. The second hurdle is that in living room I have a wall mounted touchscreen without mouse or keyboard...

with VDR there's no TV signal... when I connect to server-MD from living room then I get a nice control interface, but nearly all buttons disabled (seems just to control but not thought to stream TV..?)

Provided I could explain what I thought is possible good enough... is it possible??
(I don't mind using vdr or mythtv or whatever.... any suggestion welcome of course)

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Users / DVB-S (WinTV Nova-SE2): how to get TV working

« on: July 07, 2008, 12:08:10 pm »

the problem:
I don't get this card working and don't know what to do or where to start solving it

what I did already:
on linuxtv.org this card is listed to work out-of-the-box with mythtv. So I plugged the card and did the MythTV Setup. At the capture card setup I tried to use the DVB connection type but there the card gets the error message "device or resource is busy". When I use the analog v4l driver then my card is recognized correctly like it seems, but a channel scan bring no channels.

In linuxmce I set for the core (where the card is plugged in) the generic blackbird entry as PVR-card but no change.


I would not mind to use vdr or mythtv... I don't mind reading tons of articles or get some angry responses to use forum and google search... I would need at least some hints if this card could work generally for vdr or mythtv with linuxmce and if DVB connection is the right one or the v4l would be correct. And if DVB would be the correct choice, what could cause the card to be stated busy, although I did configure nothing else.

Or what would be recommended for DVB-S?


appreciate any help...
thank you very much!
thomas

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Users / delay secenario or ruby-code more than 20sec

« on: February 23, 2008, 05:05:27 pm »

what I want to get as result:
put GO status for channel 1 via GSD -> wait 60sec -> remove the GO status from channel 1

I control blinds via GSD and ruby-codes. When I click DOWN ("go" status is set) function it starts moving downl the blinds but this task needs about 1min. time. So what I want is to give the command DOWN, wait 60sec and then call STOP ("go" status is set to off) function.

problem:
I can use ruby function "sleep 60" but from linuxmce there's timeout of 20sec and then I get in my logs something like

Ruby was unable to handle the command in reasonable amount of time

how can I handle that - is there any function in scenario-edit I could use (I put it under lightning-scenario)?
can I increase the ruby timeout to 2 min. maybe manually... where?

Thank You!
thomas

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Users / pluto-generic-serial-device not running in beta3

« on: February 07, 2008, 09:13:10 am »

I don't get that package running. I did already download with dkpg 'pluto-generic-serial-device' and the libserial package. When I add one of the existing serial devices the process for generic serial devices doesn't run and no log file is created. Device says "Registered: No"

Has anybody running generic serial device in 0710 beta 3 version? Is it maybe a problem of this specific version?

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Users / GSD - sending simple sting to a serial interface

« on: February 05, 2008, 04:26:50 pm »

target: sending a simple string to a RS232 interface

followed to all tutorials and howto's which I've found but with no success so far.

my situation currently is:
I added a new device as Pluto Generic Serial Device as category Interface::Specialized like I've found on the forums and configured like it was recommended. Then added the ruby-code "conn_.Send("#01000001\r")" to the Process Receive Command For Child command.

I added the device as top-level device in my devices-tree and tried to send a command via the link but always says "delivery failed"... and the interface doesn't get the command. The log-file for my new device is not even created and the function "Follow Log" does say "file not found".

one thread stated that the package 'pluto-generic-serial-device' must be present. I checked and it wasn't present. I fetched it via aptitude on the core (where the serial device is connected to) and restarted everything. Do I need to include the new package somehow/somewhere?

as well I checked process-tree if something with Generic Serial is around... but nothing around. (command:  ps -elf). Did as well Quick Reload Router and whatever.

My Configuration for COM Port is: "/dev/ttyS0", BaudRate: "B9600" and parity "N81". As well I specified "RS232" as means of communication. I furthermore checked directly from KDE with cutecom if the configuration and port-name is correct and if the teststring really works -> that worked perfectly (and yes, I've closed the port in cutecom after testing again in lmce).

DCERouter.log has this when I try send command (64 is ID of the top-level device I created in device-tree)...

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13      02/05/08 16:57:40.562           TCPIP: Accepting incoming connection on socket 64, port 3450, from IP 127.0.0.1. <0xb4407b90>
10      02/05/08 16:57:40.562           ServerSocket::Created 0x85b9a38 m_Socket: 64 <0xb4407b90>
10      02/05/08 16:57:40.562           Thread created for Incoming_Conn Socket 64 127.0.0.1 dev -1 ptr 0x85b9a38 <0xb4407b90>
10      02/05/08 16:57:40.562           Running socket 0x85b9a38... m_bTerminate: 0 <0xa468db90>
08      02/05/08 16:57:40.567           Received Message from 0 (^[[36;1munknown / ^[[0m) to 69 (^[[36;1mAdam#3 / Keller^[[0m), type 1 id 384 Command:^[[35;$
10      02/05/08 16:57:40.567           begin realsendmessage before lock <0xa468db90>
10      02/05/08 16:57:40.568           realsendmessage from 0 to 69 type 1 id 384  <0xa468db90>
10      02/05/08 16:57:40.568           realsendmessage after core release from 0 to 69 type 1 id 384  <0xa468db90>
05      02/05/08 16:57:40.568           ^[[33;1mThe target device 69 (routed to 69) has not registered.^[[0m <0xa468db90>
05      02/05/08 16:57:40.568           ^[[33;1mSender: 0 sent message type: 1 ID: 384 and expected a confirmation from 69^[[0m <0xa468db90>
10      02/05/08 16:57:40.568           realsendmessage - end <0xa468db90>
05      02/05/08 16:57:40.569           ^[[33;1mSocket::ReceiveData 0x85b9a38 failed, bytes left 0 start: 2080000 1: 0 1b: 0 2: 0 2b: 0 m_Socket: 64 Incomin$
13      02/05/08 16:57:40.570           Socket::Close() m_Socket 64 <0xa468db90>
13      02/05/08 16:57:40.570           Socket::Close() m_Socket 64 closesocket: 0 <0xa468db90>
05      02/05/08 16:57:40.570           ^[[33;1mSocket::ReceiveString2 ReceiveData failed m_Socket: -1 Incoming_Conn Socket 64 127.0.0.1^[[0m <0xa468db90>
05      02/05/08 16:57:40.570           ^[[33;1mTCPIP: Closing connection to -1003 (Router Dev #0) 0x85b9a38 m_Socket: -1^[[0m <0xa468db90>
10      02/05/08 16:57:40.570           Detected disconnect: detaching thread for -1003 <0xa468db90>
05      02/05/08 16:57:40.570           ^[[33;1mRouter::RemoveAndDeleteSocket 0x85b9a38 -1003^[[0m <0xa468db90>
10      02/05/08 16:57:40.571           Executed query UPDATE Device SET Registered=0,psc_mod=psc_mod WHERE PK_Device=-1003 (0 rows) <0xa468db90>
13      02/05/08 16:57:40.571           Socket::Close() m_Socket -1 <0xa468db90>
13      02/05/08 16:57:40.572           Removing socket 0x85b9a38 from socket listener <0xa468db90>
22      02/05/08 16:57:40.572           Stale Command handler (0x85b9a38) for ^[[34;1m-1003^[[0m closed. <0xa468db90>
22      02/05/08 16:57:40.572           Map server socket size 15, vector server socket size 45 <0xa468db90>
10      02/05/08 16:57:40.572           ServerSocket::~ServerSocket(): @0x85b9a38/-1 Is it running 0? <0xa468db90>
13      02/05/08 16:57:40.572           Socket::Close() m_Socket -1 <0xa468db90>
13      02/05/08 16:57:40.572           Socket::~Socket(): deleting socket @0x85b9a38 Incoming_Conn Socket 64 127.0.0.1 (socket id in destructor: m_Socket: $
1so seems like the problem is that the device was not registered... that maybe because the GSD processes not running ...?

I can write much more detailed information if needed... just I would be glad to get some hints where to start checking and searching for the problem.

Thx in advance,
thomas

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Users / server dies with oops

« on: November 17, 2007, 12:44:27 pm »

my linuxmce server crashes est. all 20 hours... I got a OOPS posted below. Seems it is a problem in mount.cifs - is there maybe a new version of this samba part, and can I patch mine? or am I on the wrong track?


here the oops details:
Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:57 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.094847] Oops: 0002 [#1]

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:57 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.094849] SMP

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:57 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.094997] CPU:    0

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:57 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.094999] EIP:    0060:[<dee6fae0>]    Not tainted VLI

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:57 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.095001] EFLAGS: 00010246   (2.6.20-15-generic #2)

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:57 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.095023] EIP is at tconInfoFree+0x20/0x80 [cifs]

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:57 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.095028] eax: 00000001   ebx: d85855c0   ecx: dac8b200   edx: 00000002

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:57 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.095032] esi: c8b6126f   edi: 00000000   ebp: c952bc80   esp: d5f23cb0

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.095035] ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.095039] Process mount.cifs (pid: 2676, ti=d5f22000 task=d4d7ca90 task.ti=d5f22000)

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.095042] Stack: 00000000 d85855c0 dee641ce d85855c0 ded14b20 000000c0 000000a8 00000050

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.095052]        00000003 d5f23d0c d5f23cf0 dad59b80 dac8b200 fffffffa 00014494 00000000

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.095061]        d9028034 ca1a2480 00000000 c8b61260 d9028022 00000000 00000000 52454344

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.095070] Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.095105]  [<dee641ce>] cifs_mount+0x63e/0x25a0 [cifs]

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.095586]  [idr_get_new+10/48] idr_get_new+0xa/0x30

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.095656]  [sget+681/784] sget+0x2a9/0x310

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.095763]  [<dee586f0>] cifs_get_sb+0x90/0x1e0 [cifs]

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.095887]  [vfs_kern_mount+182/304] vfs_kern_mount+0xb6/0x130

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.096003]  [do_kern_mount+57/96] do_kern_mount+0x39/0x60

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.096066]  [do_mount+762/1808] do_mount+0x2fa/0x710

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.096190]  [mntput_no_expire+36/160] mntput_no_expire+0x24/0xa0

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.096231]  [link_path_walk+101/192] link_path_walk+0x65/0xc0

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.096296]  [get_page_from_freelist+679/880] get_page_from_freelist+0x2a7/0x370

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.096506]  [__alloc_pages+79/832] __alloc_pages+0x4f/0x340

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.096809]  [error_code+124/144] error_code+0x7c/0x90

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.096956]  [copy_mount_options+64/336] copy_mount_options+0x40/0x150

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.097055]  [sys_mount+119/192] sys_mount+0x77/0xc0

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.097137]  [sysenter_past_esp+105/169] sysenter_past_esp+0x69/0xa9

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.097344]  =======================

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.097347] Code: cf e8 de 5f 89 d0 c3 8d 74 26 00 53 89 c3 83 ec 04 85 c0 74 46 b8 78 cf e8 de e8 3c ec 47 e1 90 ff 0d b8 cf e8 de 8b 13 8b 43 04 <89> 42 04 89 10 c7 43 04 00 02 20 00 c7 03 00 01 10 00 90 81 05

Message from syslogd@dcerouter at Sat Nov 17 11:58:58 2007 ...
dcerouter kernel: [64949.097399] EIP: [<dee6fae0>] tconInfoFree+0x20/0x80 [cifs] SS:ESP 0068:d5f23cb0

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Users / cramfs: wrong magic ??

« on: November 12, 2007, 09:44:36 am »

Hi,

on my MD (HP ThinClient used as diskless device) when I switch to a terminal session the system automatically keeps typing "cramfs: wrong magic" all the time. Found no information about such an issue here or in another linux forum. So far it says that when it is displayed once during boot it can be ignored. But in my case I cannot type even user name and password without having typed those error messages automatically into between.

what does this message mean? it the harddisc having failures? or can it be hardware incompatibility with the ThinClient? However the station works so far, although it sometimes simply hangs and has to be restarted....

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Users / orbiter power-off not working

« on: October 30, 2007, 01:55:02 pm »

Hi,

have a touchscreen via usb (ELO product) and got it working so far. The problem ist that the power-off function seems to be ignored and the screen-saver is shown for days (but I didn't change anything in the configuration of orbiter manually - all is default).

So I start to KDE, open System Settings -> Monitor & Display and activate Power-Off function there. Now the power-off works. BUT after a reboot the screen resolution is screwed totally. The MediaDirectory setting for "Video Setting" says 2048 1536/60 but 800 600/60 would be the one I did chose before. Even KDE desktop isn't shown properly anymore (only part of the screen so that I cannot turn power-off anymore). FullRegen doesn't do a change either. I can set manually the Video Setting to 800 600/60 but after a reboot it's somehow automatically changed to 2048 1536/60 again.

Hope anybody has idea which could help me, thx in advance
Thomas

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Users / hardware recommendation for MediaDirector miniPC

« on: July 29, 2007, 12:00:20 pm »

...searched the forum for quite a while and got partly answers but none so far could convince me so far...

I'm searching hardware to be used as media director together with a 12'' Touchscreen. The MD should be mounted in the room so a fanless, less power consumption system would be appreciated. I came over DTResearch product and ordered a DT160 with VIA C7 cpu (1 GHz). But that one running embedded XP (no ressources for linux so far) and the video output is quite poor... (although video quality is not too much important to me but I don't want to forget about video comletely either...)

can anybody give an advise whether it would be better to send this one back and recommend me another similar product?

thanks in advance,
thomas

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Users / are there some suggestions for MD/Orbiter for a newbie

« on: April 28, 2007, 02:05:49 pm »

Hi,

I'm right now building a new house and would like to do best integration of linuxMCE. Can sombody give me good suggestions on the following questions please?

Let's say I have a server and a wired network already - so what's missing are the MediaDirectors for

LivingRoom
Bedroom
Bathroom

1) In LivingRoom I have a quite good LCD TV screen. What will feed my TV screen best - is there any little cool box which connects to LinuxMCE server with bluetooth support? Should that one be able to boot by PXE? or best to set up there a normal Desktop PC and use the TV screen as monitor?

2) In Bedroom actually mostly used for audio and light control. Read about WebPads - can somebody recommend one? And please suggest as well all the things whch never would have come into my mind otherwise... And isn't Audio a problem when I don't want to use the built-in speakers but the one installed in my bedroom?

3) Bathroom - ok I know the water is a problem as well as the voltage and whatever else.. I thought cool would be to have a wall-mounted touchscreen used as a MediaDirector to control light, hear audio and watch the news on the little screen.


Yet many many thanks for any help!
Thomas