huh. does this happen to the STB if it's not hooked up via firewire to
your Myth box? I mean, does it lock up occasionally still? I'm new to
this STB, so please bear with my questions.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Adeff</b> <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com">adeffs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sunday 08 January 2006 21:20, Adam Propeck wrote:<br>> On 1/8/06, Steve Adeff <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com">adeffs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > Gentlemen, I posted this to the dev list, but haven't gotten a response,
<br>> > I feel it might have been "lost" in the thread to the uninterested.<br>> ><br>> > I'm hoping its a trivial thing to do, I'm just not equiped to do such a<br>> > change<br>> > and am hoping one of you might be able to whip something together in a
<br>> > few minutes for me to test.<br>> ><br>> > One of the issues I'm tracking as part of my firewire "project" is why<br>> > the DCT62xx series misses recordings sometimes. Now that I finally got my
<br>> > DCT62xx<br>> > capturing via firewire (added a second cablebox), I think I may have<br>> > found a<br>> > way around the problem. Most people said they had to unplug the cable<br>> > from the box and plug it back in to "reset" it, which is something I
<br>> > found as well. Jeremy suggested I use gscanbus to reset the bus instead,<br>> > wonderfuly,<br>> > his suggestion was spot on allowing me to not have to crawl behind my<br>> > home theatre equipment anymore. I've "tested" this method of fixing quite
<br>> > a few times as I find the connection gets lost at least once a day, and<br>> > usually everytime no signal is collected from the box for ~2hrs.<br>> ><br>> > I was wondering if one of you could whip together a patch that
<br>> > will force a reset on the Host(Port)/Node that the firewire connection is<br>> > on<br>> > before every recording and every entry into LiveTV?<br>> ><br>> > This may also help channel changes, so perhaps placing the bus reset
<br>> > before<br>> > Myth changes the channel would be a good place for this step to go.<br>> ><br>> > Thanks for your time,<br>> > Steve<br>><br>> Who is the cable provider you're using? I haven't noticed this with Charter
<br>> really. Granted I just got mine setup recently.<br>><br><br>Comcast, if its not an issue for all providors/boxes, it can be an option in<br>mythtv-setup. I just would like to see if it does fix the problem.<br>
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