Hauppauge 2250, Ubuntu and SageTV

[Monedeath]

I'm noticing on my test system that after placing a 2250 in the Ubuntu 16.04 system, that SageTV 9.0.13 only recognizes one of the tuners. (And claims it's a Samsung?)

[    2.906878] saa7164 0000:05:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    2.906979] CORE saa7164[0]: subsystem: 0070:8891, board: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250 [card=7,autodetected]
[    2.906983] saa7164[0]/0: found at 0000:05:00.0, rev: 129, irq: 16, latency: 0, mmio: 0xef000000
[    3.105125] saa7164_downloadfirmware() no first image
[    3.105136] saa7164_downloadfirmware() Waiting for firmware upload (NXP7164-2010-03-10.1.fw)
[    3.113711] saa7164_downloadfirmware() firmware read 4019072 bytes.
[    3.113712] saa7164_downloadfirmware() firmware loaded.
[    3.113715] saa7164_downloadfirmware() SecBootLoader.FileSize = 4019072
[    3.113721] saa7164_downloadfirmware() FirmwareSize = 0x1fd6
[    3.113722] saa7164_downloadfirmware() BSLSize = 0x0
[    3.113722] saa7164_downloadfirmware() Reserved = 0x0
[    3.113722] saa7164_downloadfirmware() Version = 0x1661c00
[   10.241291] saa7164_downloadimage() Image downloaded, booting...
[   10.349292] saa7164_downloadimage() Image booted successfully.
[   13.429355] saa7164_downloadimage() Image downloaded, booting...
[   14.833373] saa7164_downloadimage() Image booted successfully.
[   14.882461] saa7164[0]: Hauppauge eeprom: model=88061
[   15.537535] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7164)
[   15.537538] saa7164 0000:05:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1411 QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
[   18.966574] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7164)
[   18.966577] saa7164 0000:05:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1411 QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
[   19.002155] saa7164[0]: registered device video0 [mpeg]
[   19.250213] saa7164[0]: registered device video1 [mpeg]
[   19.493566] saa7164[0]: registered device vbi0 [vbi]
[   19.493609] saa7164[0]: registered device vbi1 [vbi]

So it seems that Ubuntu knew it was there, but Sage thinks there's just one. Which from what I've seen on this forum, isn't the normal experience, so I'm trying to get suggestions on what's possibly going on here. (Beyond my being cursed)

[wnjj]

I can't help with the 1 versus 2 but according to this site, there are Samsung chips in the latest rev of a 2250.

https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.p...WinTV-HVR-2250

[BobPhoenix]

My HVR-2250s show up as Samsung. My HVR-2255s show up as LG. Basically Linux is just reporting the tuner that is installed on the card not the manufacturer of the card. You also should see the analog tuner: "Hauppauge WinTV-2250" which would record from sVideo and composite.

[stuckless]

It's interesting, because in the logs it's showsing video0 and video1, and my understanding is that sagetv uses v4l (video for linux) so I would think it would see 2 tuners. does /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 exist?

[Monedeath]

Originally Posted by stuckless

It's interesting, because in the logs it's showsing video0 and video1, and my understanding is that sagetv uses v4l (video for linux) so I would think it would see 2 tuners. does /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 exist?

Yes, it does. Which just puzzled me further.

But as it is, it will be sometime next month before I get back to it, if I even do so then. If Ubuntu 17 is in release at that point, I will be upgrading to get to the Linux 4.9 kernel and start focusing on the Quad PCI-E Tuner Hauppauge has, the 2250 was going to be a stop-gap to do some tentative testing(by another) while I'm not there.

This was as much, if not more so, a fishing expedition to see if someone had already encountered and resolved this issue, as I wasn't coming up with anything in my forum searching.

[uggie]

I have this card and the setup actually offers 3 possible tuners (digital, digital #2, and a PCI entry which I assume is the for the analog input that curiously v4l doesn't register...).

Are you hitting the max video sources limit? What do you have set in Sage.properties for:

linux/max_video_dev_num?

[Monedeath]

Originally Posted by uggie

I have this card and the setup actually offers 3 possible tuners (digital, digital #2, and a PCI entry which I assume is the for the analog input that curiously v4l doesn't register...).

Are you hitting the max video sources limit? What do you have set in Sage.properties for:

linux/max_video_dev_num?

Whatever the default is? I more than a few miles away from there, and never setup a VPN to get there remotely. Will be a few weeks before I'm back.

That is possibly what is doing it in, as it is also picking on the 2 HDHomerun Network tuners, both directly, and again through OpenDCT(so we're at 8 tuners from that duplication alone). Then there were 6 more Tuners showing through OpenDCT because of the Ceton Tuner. Which would have made the 2250 Tuner #15 and #16 respectively, so if the tuner limit was set to default at 15, that would certainly do it.