tvheadend firewire how to???

Eric Kowalewski

Hello,

I have Debian Wheezy running on a machine. I then loaded tvheadend. I have a Motorola Dcx3200-m cable box plugged into my firewire card.

FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 46) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
Memory at fe4ff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
I/O ports at cc80 [size=128]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci

Here is the output of plugreport:

Host Adapter 0

==============

Node 0 GUID 0x00110666455569bc
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libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR

libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR

Node 1 GUID 0xb077acfffe56d222
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oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63
oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0
channel=63, data_rate=1, overhead_id=0, payload=376

iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2

I've rebooted and power-cycled everything. I can't get the tvheadend interface to show any tv adapters. Also, in /dev I have only /dev/fw0 and /dev/fw1. I see no /dev/dvb*.

Can someone offer a brother some help?

Thanks,
Eric

Gary Brown

If I'm correct then unless the device shows up in the /dev/dvb area it will be missed out. you would need drivers to get this to work as looking at mythtv they have special code to tell the box to change the channel and they capture the video coming over the firewire and play that.

Eric Kowalewski

Everyone,

Help! How do I get the /dev/dvb dirs? I've installed v4l and still nothing. Is my vt6306 not compatible with my Debian Wheezy? This is a simple setup. I can't be the one doing this.

Thanks,
Eric

Gary Brown

After having a further look about for you I can only find information telling me that it is not usable as a dvb card so will not work with tvheadend.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Recording_Digital_Cable#Option_3:_FireWire_via_Set_Top_Box

gives all the information you need to see that it is not able to work with tvheadend without coding for it. the box listens for channel changes and sends the decrypted signal out. the v4l is usless here as no drivers exsist for the system.

I cannot say if tvheadend will or will not support this but for the time being at least mythtv is the only option you have for this. unless you can either code or know someone willing to add this feature in, code exsists for mythtv just porting it to work with tvheadend is the main

Eric Kowalewski

Hi,

I tried MythTv as a backend. It's a pain to configure and the new version doesn't work with xbmc on the pi. There has to be someone out there who is using tvheadend with FireWire and a DVB-C box. Tvheadend is just so simple and clean. Anyone?

Eric

Gary Brown

Please read my reply again as i've answered your question. asking again will not change the answer!!

Gary Brown wrote:
> After having a further look about for you I can only find information telling me that it is not usable as a dvb card so will not work with tvheadend.
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Recording_Digital_Cable#Option_3:_FireWire_via_Set_Top_Box
>
> gives all the information you need to see that it is not able to work with tvheadend without coding for it. the box listens for channel changes and sends the decrypted signal out. the v4l is usless here as no drivers exsist for the system.
>

> I cannot say if tvheadend will or will not support this but for the time being at least mythtv is the only option you have for this. unless you can either code or know someone willing to add this feature in, code exsists for mythtv just porting it to work with tvheadend is the main

and read this part again