[mythtv-users] Problems since upgrading to a Turbosite TBS6280 for DVB-T2 capture

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Alan Chandler
<alan at chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've been a user of MythTV for some time, using the packages installed from
> Debian Multimedia.  Up until recently I had a Hauppage Nova T.  However
> since it suffered from regular loss of one channel - allegedly because the
> usb hub built within it was being put to sleep by the kernel.  This setup
> ran on my home server (for everything - not just MythTV).
>
> As I have had to opportunity to upgrade the server - from an ancient Athlon
> to a Intel i5 I took the opportunity to replace the Tuner card, and looking
> around seemed to find that the Turbosite TBS 6280 was favorably seen,
> despite having to build the driver modules from source.  Although running
> the backend on Debian Stable, the Debian multimedia repository seems to have
> provided me with 0.25 of mythtv.  This is good, because my frontend (my
> desktop) runs Debian Unstable and that has a front end at 0,25.
>
> I've duly followed all the instruction and installed the re-compiled modules
> and rebooted my server (sadly - I did't really want to).
>
> However I am suffering from a situation where after about a day (not really
> sure how long) the tuner seems to silently fail.
>
> All that seems to happen is that
> 1) recordings that are scheduled just don't happen
> 2) Attempts to watch liveTv fails to find a lock.
>
> I can't find any evidence of reported failure.
>
> I really have two requests
>
> 1) Is there a short term solution whereby I could cause the device to
> re-initialise itself without doing a reboot.
> 2) Is there a longer term solution whereby I can stop it from failing
>
> Have I made a bad choice of Tuner.  Is there anything else out there that
> reliably does UK HD TV.


Why do people keep buying unsupported (ie in kernel - stable) tuners?

There is a recent thread on mythbuntu forums about this series of
drivers, may be worth a look there.