[mythtv-users] Slight OT: Troubles with HD Tuner

Ryan Steffes rbsteffes at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 03:35:18 UTC 2007


Has anyone had an HDTuner, specifically an AverMedia A180 just stop
working?  By stop working, I mean when it gets set to record no file
appears.  After trying everything I could think of with debug options
and storage groups to see if that was the problem, I ran azap with the
card to discover it's not detecting any signal at all.  azap is
reporting the same values for signal strength no matter what station I
tune to, or even whether or not the antenna or coax to the antenna is
plugged in at all.  It seems to be a hardware problem, and tomorrow
I'm going to yank it to see if anything is physically wrong with it,
but other than looking to see if some of the magic smoke got out, I'm
at a loss on how to even start debugging this.

All the azap output looks like this, no matter what's plugged into the
card.  Seems like it has to be hardware, right?

azap WRAL
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
tuning to 707000000 Hz
video pid 0x0000, audio pid 0x0000
status 00 | signal edc0 | snr a122 | ber 00000918 | unc 00000000 |
status 00 | signal edc0 | snr a122 | ber 00000800 | unc 00000000 |
status 00 | signal edc0 | snr a122 | ber 00000800 | unc 00000000 |
status 00 | signal edc0 | snr a122 | ber 00000800 | unc 00000000 |
status 00 | signal edc0 | snr a122 | ber 00000800 | unc 00000000 |



Ry


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