On Sunday 08 January 2006 21:20, Adam Propeck wrote: > On 1/8/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gentlemen, I posted this to the dev list, but haven't gotten a response, > > I feel it might have been "lost" in the thread to the uninterested. > > > > I'm hoping its a trivial thing to do, I'm just not equiped to do such a > > change > > and am hoping one of you might be able to whip something together in a > > few minutes for me to test. > > > > One of the issues I'm tracking as part of my firewire "project" is why > > the DCT62xx series misses recordings sometimes. Now that I finally got my > > DCT62xx > > capturing via firewire (added a second cablebox), I think I may have > > found a > > way around the problem. Most people said they had to unplug the cable > > from the box and plug it back in to "reset" it, which is something I > > found as well. Jeremy suggested I use gscanbus to reset the bus instead, > > wonderfuly, > > his suggestion was spot on allowing me to not have to crawl behind my > > home theatre equipment anymore. I've "tested" this method of fixing quite > > a few times as I find the connection gets lost at least once a day, and > > usually everytime no signal is collected from the box for ~2hrs. > > > > I was wondering if one of you could whip together a patch that > > will force a reset on the Host(Port)/Node that the firewire connection is > > on > > before every recording and every entry into LiveTV? > > > > This may also help channel changes, so perhaps placing the bus reset > > before > > Myth changes the channel would be a good place for this step to go. > > > > Thanks for your time, > > Steve > > Who is the cable provider you're using? I haven't noticed this with Charter > really. Granted I just got mine setup recently. >
Comcast, if its not an issue for all providors/boxes, it can be an option in mythtv-setup. I just would like to see if it does fix the problem. -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
