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"Muxes awaiting initial scan" doesn't count down

Added by Garrett B about 11 years ago

I've connected an Antennas Direct ClearStream 2V (http://www.antennasdirect.com/store/ClearStream-2V-UHF-VHF-Indoor-Outdoor-DTV-Antenna-With-Mount.html) antenna to the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950Q atsc tuner. After adding the us_ATSC_center_frequencies_8VSB DVB network, the "Muxes awaiting initial scan" failed to start counting down. Here's how I fixed it.

dmesg reported the following:
[ 3931.964710] xc5000: waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-xc5000c-4.1.30.7.fw)...
[ 3931.970217] xc5000: Upload failed. (file not found?)

I downloaded the 950Q firmware from http://www.kernellabs.com/firmware/xc5000/. You'll need to determine where to place the firmware; Ubuntu uses /lib/firmware/. When I copied the firmware, I checked dmesg and saw

[ 4791.147048] xc5000: firmware read 16497 bytes.
[ 4791.147049] xc5000: firmware uploading...
[ 4794.976020] xc5000: firmware upload complete...

Restarting Tvheadend found 68 muxes, and "Muxes awaiting initial scan" started counting down from 68. All fixed!