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No TV Adapters in List

Added by Tim Lindaner about 13 years ago

Hi,

I recently installed Openelec with tvheadend plugin on my Zotac HD-ID40 and wanted to configure my Hauppauge HVR-930C on it now. So i go to the Webinterface and in "Configuration panel" to "TV Adapters" but clicking on the Drop Down List for the Device listing doesn't show anything. My Stick is plugged in and "lsusb" Command shows that it's connected (Bus 001 Device 008: ID 2040:1605 Hauppauge). I'm new to openelec and also to linux. What am i doing wrong or better what should i do to get this running?

Best Regards
Tim


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RE: No TV Adapters in List - Added by Hein Rigolo about 13 years ago

Your adapter is, as far as i can tell, not directly supported under linux. There are experimental patches in order to try to support it under linux, but I can not see what the exact status of your device is. If you like to learn about linux and be adventourous then you could try to get it working. But that would require a lot of patience etc etc.

Try to read as much as you can by using google to see what is possible.

Hein

RE: No TV Adapters in List - Added by morten a over 12 years ago

I realize that the OP asked about this a long time ago, but in case he is still looking for help or someone else is looking for answers about the Hauppauge 930C..

To install drivers follow the instructions here (bottom of the page): http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-930C
NOTE this may not work on OpenElec as it does not have a repository (the apt-get part). For this you may have to install the Ubuntu based XBMC live version or another XBMC version with something Debian based underneath.

The other alternative is to upgrade the kernel to ver 3.3.x as the support/drivers for the hardware is included there.

Caveats:

for both alternatives Tvheadend (2.12) only sees one tuner even though it is a dual tuner and will report the tuner as in use if you try to record or watch a second channel. EDIT2 You will be able to watch two channels at once if they are on the same multiplex

I have only been able to make it work for cable transmissions under Linux, not Terrestial transmissions (over the air like Freeview etc)

EDIT2 never mind the below, it is simply wrong

NOTE to devs (if you read this) the tuner will give Tvheadend a second stream if the status reporting is bypassed. MySQL on my Ubuntu server went crazy and took up 160% of the CPU due to this years leap second and all of the sudden I got access to the second tuner using two separate frontends. My highly uneducated guess is that it took too long for Tvheadend to reply with "I'm busy" so it started a second stream before it was stopped on the frontend side.

EDIT by frontend I mean networked XBMC client there is only one adapter and frontend under /dev/dvb/ for this particular hardware

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