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[jpuigs]

Does anybody know any way of preventing external USB tuners (C & D) on an ET9000 swap positions when rebooting ?

 

 

 

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[Dimitrij]

Good question .
Milo probably knows the answer?

[Pr2]

Hi,

 

You just learn and play with udev, check here:

 

http://www.redhat.co.../features/udev/

 

Pr2

[jpuigs]

OK.

I have a dm7020hd too, which has several smargo readers, and I had the same problem with USB ports swapping, I managed some time ago to rename them, using a file (/etc/udev/rules/31-smargo.rules) which had the following text inside:

 SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", ATTRS{serial}=="Reader 74", SYMLINK+="smargo1"
 SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", ATTRS{serial}=="Reader 63", SYMLINK+="smargo2"
 SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", ATTRS{serial}=="Reader 3", SYMLINK+="smargo3"
 SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", ATTRS{serial}=="A8007wrQ", SYMLINK+="te21usb"
 SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", ATTRS{serial}=="A7031F41", SYMLINK+="easymouse"

 

So now, on softcams I replace /dev/ttyUSB0,1,2,3,4, with their names (/dev/smargo1,2,...), and the problem is over.

 

But now, talking about tuners,  I know i should "rename" tuners, but don't know how.

Besides, I see a udevinfo command, and none of my machines have it inside.

[Pr2]

Hi,

 

Tuner are "mounted" on  /dev/dvb/adapter0/

then you have severals files: frontendx (where x is the tuner position 0=A, 1=B, 2=C, 4=D)

 

Pr2

[guirigui]

Hi,

 

By the way, I mentioned the Technisat makes some mess in ET-**** STB...

 

The tuner position is not stable with sometimes vanishing settings.. It is very often necessary to check if the tuner setting is still as expected; I.e. loopthrough to tuner X for instance.

I was using the Anysee E7 S2 before.. Never observed such behavior.. Tuner position and settings were stable. 

 

In addition, using both the Techchnisat and DVB-T USB tuner occupy too much CPU ressources: corrupted pictures.

This Technisat is definitly not the best choice for our STB...  

 

ET-6000 + DVB-T Twintech UT30/40(RTL2832)+ Technisat Skystar DVB-S2

Edited by guirigui, 1 March 2014 - 11:57.

[MiLo]

You just learn and play with udev, check here:

 

Not much use, the box doesn't run udev. Try "mdev" instead.

[jpuigs]

mdev

 

....segmentation fault....

[Erik Slagter]

google "mdev"

[Dimitrij]

google "mdev"

The same problem.
Use two USB DVB-T for et9000(tuners C and D)

Set an example for priority:

usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'AVerMedia AVerTV Volar HD/PRO (A835)' in cold state
usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_af9035
usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-af9035-02.fw'
Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_af9035: firmware version=12.13.15.0
usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'AVerMedia AVerTV Volar HD/PRO (A835)' in warm state
usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer
DVB: registering new adapter (AVerMedia AVerTV Volar HD/PRO (A835))
i2c i2c-4: af9033: firmware version: LINK=12.13.15.0 OFDM=6.20.15.0
usb 1-1.1: DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Afatech AF9033 (DVB-T))...
i2c i2c-4: tda18218: NXP TDA18218HN successfully identified
Registered IR keymap rc-empty
input: AVerMedia AVerTV Volar HD/PRO (A835) as /devices/platform/ehci-brcm.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/rc/rc0/input3
rc0: AVerMedia AVerTV Volar HD/PRO (A835) as /devices/platform/ehci-brcm.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/rc/rc0
usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: schedule remote query interval to 500 msecs
usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: 'AVerMedia AVerTV Volar HD/PRO (A835)' successfully initialized and connected

[Alex_NL]

This topic became interesting again for me, since I have recently add another USB-tuner.
Forgive my lack of knowledge, but with the answers given her I still don't know what to do to fix the positions for my USB-tuners.

I have a TBS5925-tuner and a RTL2832U DVB-T-tuner which I want to be tuner E resp. F and keep that way also after a reset.

 

I have googled 'mdev' but can't figure out what I should do.

In /dev/dvb I have the folders adapter0, adapter1 and adapter2.

In /dev/dvb/adapter0 a lot of files and frontend0 .. 5

In the others only demux0, dvr0, frontend0 and net0 (both the same)

[Dimitrij]

Who can help?
I did not find the answer on the Internet.

[jpuigs]

I didn't too.

This post is from 2 years ago. (i had an et9000 )

Now I have other boxes with several tuners and I don't need the answer, which I always suposed it wouldn't come...

Sorry.

Edited by jpuigs, 29 April 2016 - 19:21.

[pop_eye]

You could try playing with options in modprobe.

 

options dvb_usb_xxxxxx adapter_nr=2

options dvb_usb_af9035 adapter_nr=3

[jpuigs]

Although I currently don't need it, thanks.

 

I've just tested with an DVB-T Aver HDpro (A835B)  and a TBS-5925, on ET10000 (4 DVB-S2 Internal Tuners) and I can force those 2 USB tuners to be the 5th. or 6th.

 

 

 

If I create a file called tuners.conf inside /etc/modprobe.d/ with this text inside it:

options dvb_usb_tbsusb adapter_nr=2 
options dvb_usb_af9035 adapter_nr=1

I get A835B (DVB-T) at 5th. place (E) and TBS-5925 at 6th. one (F)        6-5.jpg   76.56KB   2 downloads

 

 

 

However, If I write ....:

options dvb_usb_tbsusb adapter_nr=1 
options dvb_usb_af9035 adapter_nr=2

then, I get TBS-5925 at 5th. place and A835B (DVB-T) at 6th. one          5-6.jpg   87.44KB   2 downloads

Hope this helps.

Edited by jpuigs, 30 April 2016 - 00:13.

[jpuigs]

I forgot to say that a hard reboot is needed after editing file, to get it work.