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Users / 810 Beta2

« on: November 23, 2009, 10:59:49 pm »

Hi Guys

I know you guys have been working hard,
Just want to find out what the status is of beta2?
C

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Marketplace / Re: Dianemo & Cascade Systems from CHT - Now Shipping World Wide

« on: November 23, 2009, 05:48:14 am »

Hey Andrew

Do you only sell the software to?
I would love to see that you guys did.
Chris

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Installation issues / Re: 0810 and Hauppauge HVR-4000

« on: November 18, 2009, 10:19:36 pm »

Chris,

First off I need to specify that I'm trying to get this card setup for dvb-t. (satellite later, don't have one yet :-) ) Do you use the HVR-3000 with dvb-t too?
With the HVR-4000 there seem to have multiple frontends. (I don't personally really grasp what this really is at the moment... confused about adapterN, frontendN and demuxN)
Does your HVR-3000 have multiple frontends too? I guess it should as the HVR-3000 is a tri-mode card, whereas the HVR-4000 is a quad-mode card.
I have the HVR-4000 working with Kaffeine. There it shows dvb:0 and dvb:1.
One way or the other Kaffeine handles this cleanly. One can scan both for 'channels'.
If I try to use dvb-scan I am unable to get the same results.
It seems a scan can be directed like this:
(snippet)

Code: [Select]

usage: scan [options...] [-c | initial-tuning-data-file]
        atsc/dvbscan doesn't do frequency scans, hence it needs initial
        tuning data for at least one transponder/channel.
        -c      scan on currently tuned transponder only
        -v      verbose (repeat for more)
        -q      quiet (repeat for less)
        -a N    use DVB /dev/dvb/adapterN/
        -f N    use DVB /dev/dvb/adapter?/frontendN
        -d N    use DVB /dev/dvb/adapter?/demuxN

Allthough verbose messages show improvement, I'm not able to use dvb-scan to pipe to a channels.conf file.

More impotantly though, in mythtv-setup, in "Capture Card Setup" I should be able to select the DVB Card Number... (adapterN, frontendN see above).
If you get this right, instead of Disecq you get a scan button.
I have managed to get this far. When I scan for channels here, you can see the card is indeed being scanned, but apart from that it does not seem to 'store' channel information somewhere.

I have read http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-4000 that Myth v0.21 does not know about multiple frontends (yet)
I have applied the solution with the symbolic links to create an additional device. Have you done this too? If not, how did you select dvb-t in the card setup?
Could you possibly post some screenshots of your mythtv-setup?

At the moment I'm kind of stuck here. Not sure how to take it further from here..
It seems so odd I can use Kaffeine to watch TV but cannot get MythTV to do the same....

Tips? Leads? Greatly appreciated!
Thx,

Erwin

Hi
Yes I am using the DVB-T option on my HVR-3000.
As you said Myth 0.21 is not really working with all the frontend's. This is what I had to do to get my card working.

Getting thing DVB-T working (device HVR-3000)
In kernel 2.6.28 the driver for dvb-t has been added.. but Mythtv does not work very nicley with it. So here is what I did to get it showing up in Mythtv
A few checks
    1. "ls /dev/dvb" this should show you one adapter0 if not then there is something wrong(Not cover here)
    2. now we need to create another adapter. so do the following in /dev/dvb "sudo mkdir adapter1" then we need to create simbol links.
        " mkdir /dev/dvb/adapter1
          " ln /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux1 /dev/dvb/adapter1/demux0
          " ln /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1 /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0
          " ln /dev/dvb/adapter0/net1 /dev/dvb/adapter1/net0
          " ln /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr1 /dev/dvb/adapter1/dvr0
    3.  After this you should be able to select the device in Mythtv
    4. Now to make this perminant we need to create a file in /etc/init.d/ call it what you want.
    5. then copy point 2 in to it and cave it..
    6. Now we need to make it a executable with "chmod +x {FileName}"
    7. Now w need to tell rc to run the script when booting, use this "update-rc.d {filename} defaults"

Now after that I had to jump between dvb 0 and 1 to get the right one selected. After this I had a problem with my scan file as I am in NZ and the files in Myth is a bit old, but with you in the UK I don't think you will have a problem.
When I selected the right card in myth I managed to scan and find all my channels.
My biggest problem was to get my card to be recognised on the system but upgrading my kernel sorted that out for me.. just had to do the font-end trick to get the different front-ends working.

I am sorry I can't be more help on this..
At this stage I can give you screen shots as my core motherboard died so I am in the process of getting it back up.
When I get it up I will try to send you what I can.

BTW: I also could not get the dvb-scan command to work, so I put my effort in getting myth to scan it..

Let me know how you get on.
C

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Installation issues / Re: 0810 and Hauppauge HVR-4000

« on: November 17, 2009, 01:48:34 am »

No but I do have the HVR-3000 Almost the same card if I can remember..

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Installation issues / Re: 0810 and Hauppauge HVR-4000

« on: November 17, 2009, 12:24:13 am »

Hey

You will need to go into your myth backend and setup you card from there..
Chris

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Developers / Re: Programming Challenge: DCE Device: Torrent Downloader PlugIn

« on: November 04, 2009, 09:19:25 pm »

Hi Thom

Is this only going to be a torrent client?
This would be nice but a download client will also be cool..
So I can just put in a url and username and password if required and then let the system download it.
Just want to know.
Chris

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Installation issues / Re: Installing MCE with Kubuntu 9.10

« on: November 02, 2009, 09:21:48 pm »

yes sorry guys I have not been looking at the next release yet..
As we are still working on 810.
Thanks for the info.
C

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Installation issues / Re: Installing MCE with Kubuntu 9.10

« on: October 30, 2009, 01:13:49 am »

Hi

You only do updates and not upgrade..
so only updates for 8.10

LinuxMCE is only build on top of kubuntu so there is a lot of integration between LMCE and Kubuntu.
This is not just an application running on kubuntu , but almost, no is a new OS version.
From what I understand LMCE is trying to get on a yearly release that means the next LMCE would be bases on 910. Please this is how I understand it.

There is a lot of work going into a release and Thom and the guys have been working non-stop to get 810 to beta.
Hope this helps
C

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Installation issues / Re: Installing MCE with Kubuntu 9.10

« on: October 29, 2009, 11:09:49 pm »

Hi 9.04 or 9.10 will not work..
LinuxMCE is based on 8.10 and this is now in Beta.
please follow..
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/LinuxMCE-0810_beta
Thanks
C

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Installation issues / Re: 810 beta "Failed to start Open GL" error message

« on: October 19, 2009, 01:21:39 am »

Hi
This is a quote from the Alpha site..

nVidia Restricted Driver
Install the nVidia restricted driver (177) from KDE using the Hardware Manager before installing LinuxMCE 0810 Alpha for the best results The installer will now automatically choose and install the correct restricted driver during setup.It will be installed after selecting "OpenGL" on your Media Director in web admin page.

Like I said this works and if it does not then yes install the nvidia driver.
Chris

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Installation issues / Re: 810 beta "Failed to start Open GL" error message

« on: October 18, 2009, 10:19:43 pm »

Hi Guys

Have you activate the OpenGl in the webmin?
It will not install you Nvidia driver with out selecting OpenGL from the Webmin.
Give it a go and see if that works.. if not then you would have to install the nvidia driver first.
This Alpha wiki page does give a lot of info.
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/LinuxMCE-0810_alpha2

Chris

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Feature requests & roadmap / MythTV Backend reset

« on: September 22, 2009, 12:46:44 am »

Hi Guys

Is there away we can get a MythTV backend reset option in Advance.
Mythtv have asked me to restart the backend a few time and seeing that I do not have a keyboard on my MD makes it very hard..
Thanks
Chris

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Installation issues / Re: cant get signal or xmltv

« on: September 19, 2009, 11:02:55 am »

Hi

I have the same problem with my pvr-150
Can you tell me what tweaks you did in myth?
Chris

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Users / Re: MD boot issue in 810

« on: September 16, 2009, 03:43:18 am »

Hi Guys

I got two new ION and I had endless problems with My MD's For some reason the core just install the 180.11 driver..
I had to go and remove the driver like atp-get remove nvidia-glx-* and also removed the nvidia-180- restricted drivers.
Than after that I installed the Nvidia driver that I downloaded.. I had to reset my root password on the MD and then telinit 3 and then sh NVIDIA.........
this gave me a "X Failed to start" and all I did is created an xorg.conf file and bam everything worked..
I don't know if this will help any of you but it help me..
Chris

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Users / Re: My first install - a study in unsupported hardware...

« on: September 14, 2009, 04:30:44 am »

Hi chrispitude

Nice setup

For your  SPDIF setup, I had the same problem.. but I can't tell you why there is a problem but I got mine fixed byt going into LMCE Admin
Got to you media director and change your SPDIF to manual. then save it. Make sure that SPDIF is not muted in alsamixer and test it..
I had now DD on DVD, but this change fixed it..
Chris