Hi People, I am writing to inform you of a simple tool I have written to help with this tuner issue. The tool I have made will monitor dmesg output and reset the MythTV Backend if it detects a mt2060 errors. It is not a fix, but a workaround. I have written it for Ubuntu/Debian based systems. I have included the GPL source, feel free to modify as needed. I have it installed on a friend and my Ubuntu based boxes for the last few months and all seems OK. To help with debugging issues, a log is written to: /var/log/mythwatch.log Example output: [24-2-08 19:51:34] --- Started Ver: 0.2.3 --- [27-2-08 07:33:52] ERROR: Disconnect Detected. [27-2-08 07:33:52] ACTION: Attempting mythtv-backend restart. [28-2-08 05:47:20] ERROR: Disconnect Detected. [28-2-08 05:47:20] ACTION: Attempting mythtv-backend restart. [28-2-08 16:51:28] ERROR: Disconnect Detected. [28-2-08 16:51:28] ACTION: Attempting mythtv-backend restart. Note: It is not perfect in that sometimes I loose a tuner without a mt2060 error (very seldom). I am working on the idea of scanning for PAT errors in the MythTV backend log. There seems to be a connection with loosing a tuner and PAT errors. Download URL: http://www.bluboy.f2s.com/develop/MythWatch.tar.gz The tool allows you to record your shows at almost 100% reliability, but with the chance that a reset could lose a few seconds of a recording. This will happen if a reset happends while a show is being recorded. Cheers Shaun PS: For each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free software. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original authors' reputations. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
