On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:01:15 +1100, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My second PVR250 (with remote) arrived yesterday. I didn't have time > > to set it up, but was forced to this evening when I had a scheduling > > conflict with only one PVR250 installed. I got it up and running, and > > both shows recorded fine. However, still being a bit of a newb with > > MythTV, I must admit I wasn't sure it would work. > > I thought that I had seen something in the docs about adding a second > > tuner, but now I can't seem to locate it. Wonder if anyone might be > > able to point me to it, or if it is not available, provide a quick > > explanation on commands to verify a working tuner. > > If bothe shgows recorded then I'd say you're home and hosed. FYI, I > have 2 BT8x8 cards but the theory should be the same. Here's the > relevant bit from my modprobe.conf: > #----bttv----# > alias char-major-81 videodev > alias char-major-81-0 bttv > alias char-major-81-1 bttv > options bttv card=55,37 radio=0 tuner=0,28 chroma_agc=1 combfilter=2 > Funny, I only have the 'char-major-81-0 ivtv' line, I don't have a line for 81-1. However, both tuners are working fine. I tested this by pressing 'Y' to switch between them. Should I add this?
> You can check whether both cards are working by pressing Y on the > keyboard which will switch between tuners. > > > Also, after my recordings finished, I had some issues with the > > frontend crashing. Since setting up the remote, I pulled the keyboard. > > So, I wasn't sure how to go about firing the frontend back up. I went > > back to Jarod's guide and used the directions there to setup the > > remote's power button to stop/start the frontend. It works to stop the > > frontend, but will not start it back up. Any ideas on what I might > > have done wrong? > > Please find my start/stop script attached which gets called from the > remote without any parameters. If the F/E is running it will kill it, > if not it wil start it. > > Regards, > Phill OK, I'll give that one a shot. I'm still playing around with the lirc settings. Thanks for the tips. Garry
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