<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><style type="text/css">body { font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:13px}</style></head><body><div><snip></div><div><br></div><div>>>> My understanding is that the symlink should<br>>>> just point to the adapter, i.e.<br>>>><br>>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 8 13:25 HVR1100 -> adapter2<br>>>><br>>>> Manually setting this up allows the card to be configured and channels<br>>>> scanned with EIT as the video source.<br>>>><br>>>> However:<br>>>><br>>>> $ udevadm info -q path -n /dev/dvb/adapter2 --attribute-walk<br>>>> device node has wrong file type<br>>>><br>>>> So I can't see how to generate the udev rule for the adapter, rather<br>>>> than just for frontend0.</div><div><br></div><div>adapter2 is just a directory containing the device nodes frontend0, demux0, dvr0, net0, most/all of which Myth requires for the tuner to function correctly.</div><div>Theoretically, creating a symlink adapterHVR1100 -> adapter2 should be sufficient. However, you'll have to come up with your own rule to do that. The easier approach documented in </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Device_Filenames_and_udev#Example_DVB_udev_Rules_file">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Device_Filenames_and_udev#Example_DVB_udev_Rules_file</a></div><div><br></div><div>is to create a new directory (adapterHVR1100) containing symlinks to each of the nodes. </div><div><br></div><div>>>> (the next problem will be how to generate rules for the USB device,<br>>>> which has two tuners and I can't see anything to differentiate them<br>>>> based on udevadm output, but one step at a time).<br></div><div><br></div><div>The wiki has an example for this. I use the 2nd form. Essentially the 1st tuner creates symlink1 and the 2nd tuner detects the presence of symlink1 and so creates symlink2.</div><div><br></div><div><snip></div><div><br></div><div>>> I believe that the enumeration order is fixed for the two tuners on<br>>> the same device, so they should not swap around using the adapter_nr<br>>> option. But even if they do, they are identical tuners so it should<br>>> not cause any trouble unless you have given them different aerial<br>>> connections.</div><div><br></div><div>I agree with 'fixed enumeration order'. I have a troublesome Nova TD where the one tuner is notably worse than the other. It always boots up as the 2nd tuner.</div><div><br></div><div><snip></div><div><br>> Daryl added an item to the wiki about this. Try something like:<br>><br>> SUBSYSTEM=="dvb", ATTRS{device}=="0x8852", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k;<br>> K=$${K#dvb}; printf dvb/adapterHP1250/%%s $${K#*.}; exit 0'", <br>> SYMLINK+="%c"<br>><br>> on one line.<br>><br><br></div><div>Specifically mythtv-setup only detects devices in directories named with an "adapter" prefix.</div></body></html>