Did you ever come up with any conclusions or suggestions on an "optimal" configuration? Perhaps a recommended FireWire chipset?
Dave On 12/12/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to figure out the issue with this firewire thing. My laptop is > perfectly accurate when changing channels but my mythbox isn't. theres a > couple differences between the two though. Since this comes up so much as a > problem for people I want to start collecting information on the issue to see > if I can find out where the problem is. > > Could anyone that is using firewire to control a Motorola DCT-6xxx series > cable box respond to me off list with the following info: > 1. firewire chipset being used (lspci|grep FireWire) > 2. your plugreport output for the Node connected to the DCT. > 3. the output from a 6200ch -v channel change > 4. Your Kernel (uname -r) > 5. Your 'modinfo raw1394' output > 6. your accuracy rate (0 - 5, 5=perfect channel changes, 0=numbers get > detected but rarely does it work). > 7. a brief description of what your box does when you try and change channels. > I have a brief description of what happens to me below in the quoted email. > > Hopefully we can figure this out and end the problem. > > -- > Steve > > On Monday 12 December 2005 13:12, Steve Adeff wrote: > > On Monday 12 December 2005 10:50, Frank Lynch wrote: > > > On 11/30/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I wrote a script that would change the channel +1 run test-mpeg and if > > > > data was received write the channel and "ok" in a text file. This was > > > > so I could quickly figure out what channels were 5C'd for me, through > > > > the whole script I didn't run into a channel change error. I then > > > > played around with it (in awe that it actually worked of course) and > > > > again had no issues. all through p2p. > > > > > > Hi Steve, > > > Would you mind sharing your script with the list? > > > I'm in the process of setting up a firewire connection to my cable > > > box, and your script could save me quite a bit of time (as opposed to > > > going through and manually finding out which channels are 5C'd). > > > thanks, > > > --Frank > > > > i would, but I think I deleted it (ie. I can't find it...). > > > > whats funny is that now that I have a permanent Myth setup with my cable > > box using 6200ch to tune the channels I've noticed a lot of mis-changes. > > > > I'm sitting here ssh'd in to the machine running 6200ch over and over > > trying different channels (this box is p2p only which may be of issue?) and > > am getting qute a few mis-controled channel changes. > > > > it looks like whats happening is the box thinks it receives doubles of some > > numbers. This will either cause the box to think its receiving 4 or 5 > > numbers. > > ie. tell it to tune to 256 and when it errors I get: > > 255 <- no 6 even gets sent! > > 2556 = ch 6 gets tuned > > 25566 = ch 66 gets tuned. > > > > so far its usually the middle # that gets repeated but I've had the third > > number repeated occasionally. > > > > Which leads me to think that perhaps its something wrong with > > libavc1394/libraw1394 or the 6200ch program. > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Are Your Friends Lemmings? -- http://www.lemmingshirts.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
