[mythtv] Possible firewire node/channel bug in firewire_tester, also in mythtv?

[Nathan Blythe]

I've had great success with Motorola boxes before, but unfortunately
not so with SA boxes.  My Cox Cable office only provides SA boxes, but
I did get them to downgrade me to an SA 3250 which as "official"
support in MythTV (still doesn't work, but at least now I know what to
do!).

I guess nobody has any input on the actual code aspect of my question?
 For the record, mythprime, which is just an expanded version of
firewire_tester that only does P2P, has the same "bug" (if it is,
indeed, a bug).

On 8/8/08, Dylan Semler <dylan.semler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Nathan Blythe <nblythe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ...
>> MythTV fails to talk to my STB; it can change channels no problem
>> (which is interesting in and of itself, as the SA boxes are
>> notoriously hard to change channels via FireWire, so says Google) but
>> it fails to get a lock.  test-mpeg2, however, works flawlessly.  This
>> leads me to think that MythTV is making the same mistake
>> firewire_tester is making; assuming channel = node when in fact it
>> does not in my situation.
>>
>
> For the record, I also have no problems changing channels, though found
> test-mpeg2 to be significantly more reliable than MythTV P2P.  Now I use
> broadcast for Myth recordings which seems to be more stable.  I'm using an
> older (no HDMI, only DVI) Motorola HD cable box.
>
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> Dylan
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