Re: Possible bug with FusionHDTV7 Dual Express

["Timothy D. Lenz" <tlenz@vorgon.com>]

Ran fin without problems for several days. Changed setting to "-D 0 -D 1 
-D 2" So it would use all 3 tuners (default) and left it on the 3rd 
tuner. Next morning first tuner was down. Today I'm trying it with "-D 0 
-D 2" So it uses the first tuner of the dual and the 3rd tuner (second 
card). Leaving it set with vdr on the 3rd tuner.

On 4/5/2010 1:21 PM, Timothy D. Lenz wrote:
> For some time I have been having problems with VDR seemingly loosing
> control over one of the two tuners. It seems to be related to the
> atscepg plugin. It happened quicker after VDR had timer recorded a show.
> Removing the plugin seemed to stop it but also get no epg data. basicly,
> which ever tuner vdr was displaying from, the other tuner would seem to
> stop working. You get no signal. But only vdr needed to be restarted to
> get the tuner back. One tuner always seemed to go down within 24hrs when
> using the plugin. It seems to be related to when the plugin used a free
> tuner to scan epg.
>
> I put a second card in, an HVR-1800 which became the 3rd dvb device
> according to vdr. Same thing kept happening. Always the first or second
> tuner since no mater which vdr was using, it would always be one of
> those that was left free. I started vdr with "-D 1 -D 2" to force vdr to
> only use 1 tuner of the dual and the second card. I also use femon to
> make sure vdr is using dvb1 after changing channels so that the plugin
> uses the second card for scanning.
>
> It has been running for a couple of days and done recordings without
> loosing a tuner. Since forcing it to use only one tuner of the dual
> seems to have stopped the problem, it is starting to look like a driver
> problem with the fusion card. Today I used femon to put vdr on dvb2 so
> that the plugin uses the fusion to scan epg. In a couple days if the
> problem still doesn't show, I may swap slot positions of the two cards
> so vdr use the 1800 without forcing by blocking a tuner.
>
> The plugin Author has also been looking into this, but he only recently
> got a second tuner card working.
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