[mythtv-users] UDEV rules
Yianni
yiannividalis at hotmail.com
Tue Jan 21 06:43:06 UTC 2014
> >>> SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux", DRIVER=="ivtv", SYMLINK+="video-pvr150"
> >>>
> >>> Reboot, verify that there is a /dev/video-pvr150, and then in myth-setup change the hauppauge tuner's device to be the symlink instead of /dev/video0 as it likely is. You should now be insulated from kernel device renumbering.
> >> I'm looking into this again George, and I cut and pasted the rule you
> >> suggested into /etc/udev/rules.d and called it "capture-card.rules"
> >> re-booted and still the pvr 150 presents as /dev/video0. do I need to
> >> put further rules for the other cards also?
The additional udev rule file will not prevent the device from being named video{0,1,etc}. This is taken care by the default udev rules of your distribution. What it does is create an additional device named /dev/video-pvr150, which will always point to the pvr 150, regardless of its original name.
Yianni.
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