Every now and then my hvr-1600 goes red-screen on me. (Apparently this indicates no signal, so presumably something has gone south in the front-end selection logic.) From the lookup I've done, it's a symptom of no signal. For a while I blamed it on my cheapo splitter/amp, because when it happened I'd take things down, move the input to another channel, and things would work, again. Recently I installed a much better distribution amp.
Today it happened again. I guess I need to sort out symptoms better, but from what I can tell, once it goes red-screen, a simple reboot doesn't clear things up, though I need to verify this. I'm going to presume that rmmod/modprobe wouldn't clear things either, if a reboot didn't. These facts are a bit murky, from the old splitter/amp, but I do remember that once an input went, it stayed gone until I fiddled with the hardware. Tonight when that happened, I realized that fiddling with the hardware also meant really disconnecting the power, and that means the V5SB (5V standby - on when the front-panel power is off) too. So I shutdown, then turned off the switch on the pack of the power supply to really power off, and waited about 20 minutes. (I wanted to record "Serenity" and I thought it was at 6:00, but it was really at 6:30, so I could have given it 50 minutes.) Anyway, all is well now. Next time it goes red-screen, I'll first shut down mythbackend, then try the rmmod/modprobe, and if that doesn't work I'll simply reboot. Then I'll try the full powerdown, including the backside switch. (and report findings here) By the way, this is on the NTSC side, while in this state the ATSC/QAM side works OK. In the meantime, have other seen this, or have any observations? Dale Pontius _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
