[ivtv-users] CX18 & MythTV

[Andy Walls]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 19:29 -0700, Andreas wrote:
> Am Montag, 16. Juni 2008 14:33:34 schrieb Andy Walls:
> > On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 08:05 -0700, Andreas wrote:
> > > I seem to recall Andy Walls saying that he got an older version of
> > > MythTV to recognise the HVR-1600, but all I get with a recent
> > > 0.21.fixes version is an error message. Has there been any work on
> > > this?
> >
> > Andreas,
> >
> > I have the official (I think) version 0.21 archive retrieved from the
> > MythTV source download page working with no problem.
> >
> > $ ls -al mythtv-0.21.tar.bz2
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 andy andy 14230687 2008-04-11 23:22 mythtv-0.21.tar.bz2
> >
> > $ sha1sum mythtv-0.21.tar.bz2
> > 676a42fb31833baf7617148bdc8ef8ce5e352f84  mythtv-0.21.tar.bz2
> >
> >
> > Thus, I am not working on any MythTV error/integration problems.
> >
> > What are the errors?
> 
> In the card setup screen, I get a "failed to open" message and there is no 
> way to pick the card.
> 
> A screenshot is here: http://imagebin.ca/view/bW-ZBvhU.html

I notice the screen has no device node specified.  So just to ask the
simple question before we look further: Have you tried specifying 

/dev/video0
or 
/dev/video1
or etc.

for video device?

If you have, does the device node have the proper permissions on it?

I have mine setup like this as the mythbackend isn't running as root on
my machine:

$ ls -al /dev/video*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root        6 2008-06-17 06:17 /dev/video -> video0
crw-rw----+ 1 andy mythtv 81,  0 2008-06-17 06:17 /dev/video0           
crw-rw----+ 1 andy mythtv 81,  1 2008-06-17 06:17 /dev/video1
crw-rw----+ 1 andy mythtv 81, 24 2008-06-17 06:17 /dev/video24
crw-rw----+ 1 andy mythtv 81, 25 2008-06-17 06:17 /dev/video25
crw-rw----+ 1 andy mythtv 81, 32 2008-06-17 06:17 /dev/video32
crw-rw----+ 1 andy mythtv 81, 33 2008-06-17 06:17 /dev/video33

The even numbered nodes are my ivtv/PVR-150, the odd numbered nodes are
my cx18/HVR-1600.


If all that's good, what do the error messages mythtv-setup outputs to
the terminal screen say?


Regards,
Andy

> Thanks for looking into it!