[mythtv-users] Stabalizing Firewire?

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Wed May 9 12:52:15 UTC 2007


On 5/8/07, David Frascone <dave at frascone.com> wrote:
> Steven Adeff wrote:
> > On 5/8/07, David Frascone <dave at frascone.com> wrote:
> >> Steven Adeff wrote:
> >>> On 5/8/07, David Frascone <dave at frascone.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I've noticed that firewire support is flaky at best.  But -- I still
> >>>> need it for premium highdef channels.
> >>>>
> >>>> So -- Does anyone have any ideas how to stabalize it?  I'm thinking
> >>>> reboot it and my backend every once in a while.  But -- how can I tell
> >>>> when the backend is idle?
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm thinking of an algorithm something like this:
> >>>>
> >>>> If it is between 2:00AM and 4:00AM
> >>>>    And, there are no recordings scheduled in the next 15 minutes
> >>>> then
> >>>>    Turn off STB.
> >>>>     Reboot
> >>>> end
> >>>>
> >>>> (Part of my mythbackend startup script turns the STB back on.)
> >>>>
> >>>> The only other thing I can think of is to modify my turn-on script to
> >>>> run firewire_tester to make sure we have ptp connectivity working.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> So -- if the above algorithm is sound:
> >>>>    How can I tell if there are recordings pending?  Play with SQL in the
> >>>> script?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> are you running SVN?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Yes.
> >>
> >> Yesterday, it wouldn't let me tune to any channel on firewire.  When I
> >> ran plugreport, I got only errors .. . . the firewire connection had
> >> "disappeared".  When I rebooted the box (the myth backend, not the STB),
> >> everything started working fine.
> >>
> >
> > sounds more like a driver/hardware issue than a myth issue. might want
> > to check your kernel and system logs.
> >
> >
> Something really screwy is going on -- I can't seem to schedule any
> recordings on my firewire tuner.  I have logs at
> http://frascone.com/log.txt.gz  (-v most).  Does anyone see anything
> wrong in the logs?  (I'm trying to schedule recordings on mythweb.  All
> other tuners seem to record fine.  But the firewire one (STB) is somehow
> broked.

do you have a lineup assigned to the firewire tuner?

-- 
Steve
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