[mythtv-users] tuner numbering

[Daryl McDonald]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Roger Siddons <dizygotheca at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:41:08 -0000, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hoi Chris,
>>
>> Monday, February 24, 2014, 8:17:44 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> On 24/02/14 18:39, Mike Bibbings wrote:
>>>> On 24/02/14 18:03, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>>>>> Greetings Mythizens, recordings have been hit and miss lately, and I
>>>>> finally realized that it is not my antenna, it is the random tuner
>>>>> numbering done at boot-up. I do have UDEV rules in place for all the
>>>>> cards, but the only one that stays with the symlink name is the analog
>>>>> card, the dvb cards won't open in "input connections" after inserting
>>>>> the symlink name, or they pop back to "adapter(0or1)/frontend0" if I
>>>>> re-select them in "Capture Cards".
>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> A thought about the udev simlink not being accepted by mythtv. I
>> myself only have analog so I cannot test.
>> If I understood right, by default for every dvb adapter a directory
>> adapter[1-7] is created in dev, which contains several device nodes.
>> Among them frontend0. The name frontend to me suggests it's a kind of
>> portal to the other device nodes. If you only create a udev simlink
>> for the frontend node, it might not be able to find the other device
>> nodes.
>> So my suggestion is to create udev simlinks for all device nodes and
>> group them by card in a directory. Give the directory a unique name
>> for every card and give the device nodes the same name as before.
>>
>> Tot mails,
>> Hika mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>>
>
> Correct. That was my suggestion at
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/562186?#562186
>
> Fixing adapter numbers is a simple solution if you don't swap tuners about
> and can remember what each adapter is months/years later. Personally I like
> to see my own symlink names in the dialog.
>
>
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Have you had any luck getting the symlink name to stay put in >capture
cards, for digital cards?
>