[mythtv-users] Working HVR-1800

[Kenneth Emerson]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Barry Fawthrop <barry at isscp.com> wrote:

> Thank
> I have the same card
>
> dmesg
>
> [    9.977033] CORE cx23885[0]: subsystem: 0070:7801, board: Hauppauge
> WinTV-HVR1800 [card=2,autodetected]
> [   10.151780] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
> [   10.165950] tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 78521, rev C1E9, serial#
> 2786312
> [   10.165954] tveeprom 0-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-2A-84-08
> [   10.165956] tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Philips 18271_8295 (idx
> 149, type 54)
> [   10.165959] tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) ATSC/DVB Digital
> (eeprom 0x88)
> [   10.165961] tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is CX23887 (idx 42)
> [   10.165963] tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is CX23887 (idx 37)
> [   10.165965] tveeprom 0-0050: has radio
> [   10.165967] cx23885[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=78521
> [   10.192433] cx25840 2-0044: cx25  0-21 found @ 0x88 (cx23885[0])
> [   10.196540] cx25840 2-0044: firmware: requesting
> v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw
>
> No matter what I try I either get a screwed up picture  (looks green and
> purple)
> or I get tvtime with good picture and NO audio.
>
> My provider says it is Digital Cable
> But I can only get a signal on the middle of the THREE input connectors
> which is all analog
>
> I can't get scan or w_scan to find any channels thus can not create a
> channels.conf file
>
> Where did you get the v4l-dvb source and what was your steps
> Anything you can remember that may help would be great
> Thanks
>
> Barry
>
> If you haven't looked here yet (
www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1800) this is where I got
all my information.  I also noticed that support for this card was built
into the kernel at 2.6.25.  I originally got this working under feisty which
required me to build the driver modules.  Now, I don't think it is
necessary.  The link shows that the analog does not work with this card
(NTSC) and only the ATSC is supported.  ATSC is all I am using it for (OTA
from an outside antenna).  It should be connected to the third (from the
top) connector on the card.  (Top - Radio, Middle - NTSC, Bottom (third) -
ATSC).

It's not clear from your dmesg output that the firmware is actually being
loaded.  Here is the rest of my startup:

[   15.744152] cx25840 4-0044: loaded v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw firmware
(16382 bytes)
[   15.753694] tuner 3-0042: chip found @ 0x84 (cx23885[0])
[   15.788897] tda829x 3-0042: could not clearly identify tuner address,
defaulting to 60
[   15.826656] tda18271 3-0060: creating new instance
[   15.861355] TDA18271HD/C1 detected @ 3-0060
[   17.032349] tda829x 3-0042: type set to tda8295+18271
[   18.132409] cx23885[0]/0: registered device video3 [v4l2]
[   19.212385] cx23885[0]: registered device video4 [mpeg]
[   19.212388] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
[   19.212390] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
[   19.313803] MT2131: successfully identified at address 0x61
[   19.315422] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
[   19.315424] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1409
QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
[   19.315665] cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xb1
[   19.315672] cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:05:00.0, rev: 15, irq: 18,
latency: 0, mmio: 0xfe800000
[   19.315679] cx23885 0000:05:00.0: setting latency timer to 64

The device I use within mythTV is /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0.

-- Ken E.
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