Hi All:
Starting a new thread, I had issues before regarding buffering but I'm going to leave that for a while.
I bought a brand new Hauppauge 955Q as the new Hauppauge WineTV dual tuner was giving me problems finding stations using TVHeadend. I should say here that I am 1 mile from the CN tower in Toronto where all these stations come from, and I have an expensive indoor/outdoor antenna sitting on my condo terrace looking right at the tower.
Using the TVHeadend, nightly build 4.3-1906, with LE 9.2.6. Intel NUC, but same issue on a Pi3B+ and Pi4.
After researching the 955Q stick, I made sure that the v4l-cx231xx-avcore-01.fw 4.3-1906 was installed in the firmware folder and the links were proper. See logs below.
I used the Crazycat driver since that's what I've found elsewhere being recommended. I made sure the others were disabled.
I started from scratch with TVHeadend, new tuner, new ATSC network, forced scan, 24 muxes found and 6 services (CBC, CBLFT, TVO) all off the CN Tower. But no CityTV, CTV, Global TV, all coming from the tower, and all with frequencies I checked from Crazycat's latest Github table here: dtv-scan-tables/ca-ON-Toronto at master · crazycat69/dtv-scan-tables · GitHub
I've used 2 different tuners, both well supported according to threads here and elsewhere. I've used three different hardware devices. I've used 2 different antennas, one a flat panel Wineguard and the other a Clearstream.
I have heard some say that EPG interferres with these Hauppauge tuners, so I disabled it in each mux.
Some logging. In dmesg it shows the recommended firmware and some other stuff:
[ 7.314182] cx25840 8-0044: loaded v4l-cx231xx-avcore-01.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
[ 7.375269] cx231xx 2-2:1.1: v4l2 driver version 0.0.3
[ 7.464937] cx231xx 2-2:1.1: Registered video device video0 [v4l2]
4.890940] Registered IR keymap rc-hauppauge
[ 7.375260] tveeprom: TV standards PAL(B/G) NTSC(M) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L') PAL(D/D1/K) ATSC/DVB Digital (eeprom 0xfc)
[ 4.969408] rc rc1: Conexant Hybrid TV (cx231xx) MCE IR no TX (2040:b150) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/rc/rc1
[ 4.969469] input: Conexant Hybrid TV (cx231xx) MCE IR no TX (2040:b150) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/rc/rc1/input9
[ 5.209214] cx231xx 2-2:1.1: Identified as Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-975 (card=30)
[ 7.375260] tveeprom: TV standards PAL(B/G) NTSC(M) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L') PAL(D/D1/K) ATSC/DVB Digital (eeprom 0xfc)
Some messages from lsmod:
cx231xx_dvb_ci 28672 21
tas2101 24576 1 cx231xx_dvb_ci
dvb_core 131072 1 cx231xx_dvb_ci
videobuf2_vmalloc 20480 1 dvb_core
videobuf2_memops 20480 1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_common 53248 1 dvb_core
cx231xx_alsa 24576 0
cx25840 57344 1
cx231xx 184320 2 cx231xx_dvb_ci,cx231xx_alsa
tveeprom 28672 1 cx231xx
i2c_mux 16384 3 lgdt3306a,si2168,cx231xx
cx2341x 28672 1 cx231xx
videobuf_vmalloc 16384 1 cx231xx
videobuf_core 24576 2 cx231xx,videobuf_vmalloc
v4l2_common 16384 3 cx2341x,cx231xx,cx25840
videodev 180224 5 cx2341x,v4l2_common,videobuf2_common,cx231xx,cx25840
media 45056 6 videodev,si2157,dvb_core,videobuf2_common,cx231xx,cx25840
Guys (and ladies), I have tried it all, and I can't seem to pull in signals. Is it Kodi? Is it TVHeadend? Please those of you who know this stuff, I have spent a lot of time and money on this, and would appreciate the help. I'm really frustrated.
If someone is willing to find and help me implement the correct solution that gets me these channels, I would be certainly willing to donate $100 to any open source project you wish.
Harry
