HDHomerun and Ubuntu

[tpboyce]

The specifications say that the HDHomerun does not require a driver install. I rebuilt my server as Ubuntu 10.9, and although SageTV sees the tuners, it says there is no signal. Even though they are native, do I still need to install and run the homerun_config utility? I had a 9.04 server running, and it took some tweaking, and I think eventually installing the config utility and updating the firmware got it to work, but I ended up having duplicate tuners for the HDHomerrun for some reason and I want to avoid that. I am not seeing any /dev/video* devices either, and had those previously. I have an iPhone app that checks signal strength on the HDHR, and that is fine, and it shows that it is currently streamiing one tuner to my SageTV server.

[TVmole]

I'm pretty sure you need to follow the Linux instructions here to get the HDhomerun installed under Linux:
Linux Install

If you type "hdhomerun_config discover" in the terminal and don't get a response your hdhomerun isn't visible by Linux.

I'm also not sure what you mean by duplicate tuners?? The HDhomerun DOES have dual tuners that show up as tuner 0 and tuner 1...is that what you're referring to?

[madtrader]

As I recall, SageTV discovered my 2 HDHomeRuns without any other work on my part. I had 2 plugged into the network already and after bringing up Sage for the first time with the debug log turned on I saw that it discovered both boxes. I'm running on FreeBSD and did not install anything else from Silicon Dust, just SageTV and its dependencies.

[tpboyce]

It appears that the magic missing step here was doing a channel scan. I did install the hdhomerun_config application, however, all this did was allow me to see if the machine could see the tuners, which I knew it would.