<br>I wrote a small script the ran in cron every minute, the script itself looped every 10 seconds.<br>Checking messages for the disconnect message, made a date stamped copy of messages and cp /dev/null to the message file then rebooted, my recordings start 3 minutes ahead to be able to do a reboot since my disconnects only/mostly occured while "opening" a channel, havenīt had any disconnects for a long while though.
<br><br>I would be simple to have a script running through messages each minute and restarting myth-backend in case of a disconnect. The oopses where much worse since the occasionaly needed a hard reset.<br>With bad reception I had more disconnects than with good reception, therefore I recommend using the LNA and applaying the reception patch if needed. Heard that myth will be able to handle hotplugs in the future.
<br><br>/Henrik<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robin Hill</b> <<a href="mailto:myth@robinhill.me.uk">myth@robinhill.me.uk</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 Tue Apr 24, 2007 at 02:29:52AM -0700, Frank Mckinney wrote:<br><br>> If I follow the 'normal' install (as normal and standard as MythTV<br>> gets anyway) and use the latest drivers supplied by <a href="http://linuxtv.org">
linuxtv.org</a> and<br>> mythtv, will I be able to avoid the disconnect and other problems, do<br>> you think?<br>><br>In my experience, no. I've been using the Nova-T 500 for nearly 6<br>months now and am still getting diconnects approximately every month
<br>(this is running the latest <a href="http://linuxtv.org">linuxtv.org</a> drivers with 0.20-fixes mythtv<br>(with EIT disabled - last time I enabled it in increased the disconnect<br>to an almost daily basis), The latest DVB changes have prevented a
<br>kernel oops on disconnect but mythbackend still needs restarting so it's<br>not a huge improvemenet,<br><br>However, having said that, I'm very happy with the Nova-T 500 card. The<br>irritation of dealing with the occasioanl disconnect is more that offset
<br>by the convenience of the dual-tuner DVB-T card (especially in the<br>constrained confines of the 2-slot case I'm pretty much stuck with).<br><br>I've had to add an IR receiver to replace the old Nova-T card I had.
<br>This has presented some issues as it's more sensitive to interference<br>(though also pick up a wider range of signals) than the Nova-T receiver.<br>I'm happier having the IR reception separated from the video card (from
<br>an abstract perspective) though as it makes it far simpler to change<br>video cards in future.<br><br>Anyway, I think that pretty much covers my views on the Nova-T 500.<br>There's a fair bit of work still to do on it but the developers seem
<br>aware of the issues and working on them, which is more than many other<br>cards. From my point of view there's also no competition for a<br>dual-tuner DVB-T card so I'm stuck with USB tuners otherwise - which I'm
<br>(probably unfairly) biased against.<br><br>Cheers,<br> Robin<br><br>--<br> ___<br> ( ' } | Robin Hill <<a href="mailto:myth@robinhill.me.uk">myth@robinhill.me.uk</a>> |<br> / / ) | Little Jim says .... |
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