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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