Changing delivery system from DVB-T to DVB-T2

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enchesss
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Re: Changing delivery system from DVB-T to DVB-T2

Post by enchesss »

I will try above advice asap.

In meantime - I seem to be able to trick myth into scanning

I needed to put another tuner card in 'Winfast' barnd - not sure model.

I left Quad in and swapped aerial to winfast -

Changed tuner card setting from adapter0 to adapter 4

tried to scan using adapter 4 but no channels trying input connections scan.

I then changed aerial back to quad hd and changed the tuner card back to adapter 0

did another scan and got all channels ok

what can possibly go wrong now :)
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Re: Changing delivery system from DVB-T to DVB-T2

Post by blm-ubunet »

IMO should have worked straight out of the box.

Sounds like another quality Belling Lee (VHF) connector/ patchlead...
Really wish Hauppauge would just use F connectors on all products.
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Re: Changing delivery system from DVB-T to DVB-T2

Post by enchesss »

It did work out of the box - using Kaffeine

The cards do not even need to be set to DVB-T1 - even though I think there is no DVB-T2 in Sydney - it still works now - evern if cards are left to default DVB-T2 setting.

Have to cross fingers doing a reboot or upgrade though.
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Re: Changing delivery system from DVB-T to DVB-T2

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2 days ago - as a result of having cards working - the:

var/log files:

syslog and kernlog became extreemly large - e.g. 80Gb and they used all disk space.

There were a lot of cx28 logs

I turned off logging on grub boot options and is now ok



FYI

An attempted fix was to tun off the option "open on demand" in add tuner card settings - this resulted in the tuner cards not working on boot

That option has been reset to default 'on' and all is working with no large syslog or kernlog files atm
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Re: Changing delivery system from DVB-T to DVB-T2

Post by enchesss »

further testing results in tuner card not working if the line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="cx23885.debug=8"

is removed from grub

however

if the line is included in grub the log files increase at about 1mB per second resulting in extremely large usage up to 40Gb per hour
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Re: Changing delivery system from DVB-T to DVB-T2

Post by enchesss »

ok - so

removing :

v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw

from /lib/firmware has

NOT worked.

All tuner cards working - however there are:

very large log (syslog and kern.log) files being generated


I can still tune using all four tuners however

even with one tuner - I am getting large syslog and kern.log files as reported here:

https://github.com/b-rad-NDi/Ubuntu-med ... /issues/19

and

https://github.com/b-rad-NDi/Ubuntu-med ... /issues/41

Maybe I have the wrong (old) firmware??


Am trying to prevent syslog writing - however - it is not really an answer to the real problem and probably wont solve the large kern.log files either
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Re: Changing delivery system from DVB-T to DVB-T2

Post by enchesss »

further testing results in a timeout for channels if the line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="cx23885.debug=8"

is changed to any number less than 5

Using

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="cx23885.debug=5"

Results in working tuner cards - and smaller syslog and kern.log files

But they are still increasing at a fast rate - about 1 Mb per 10 seconds
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Re: Changing delivery system from DVB-T to DVB-T2

Post by blm-ubunet »

The debug settings could just be changing the timing or serializing of some operations by loading the filesystem.

Do you have a large enough signal & tuning delays (see MikeB2013's post) ?
Does Kaffeine have configurable tuner delays?

I successfully used "Open on Demand " for only one of the (4) tuners.
If you have to use "Open On Demand" to get the card/tuners to show up suggests mythbackend is started before the tuners are initialized.
That's hard to believe unless the tuner is a network device.

If you stop & re-start MBE do the tuners always appear ("Open On Demand" disabled)?
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