Using R5A22 on an old eMachines P3 550.

Trying to get everything working correctly with my system. I bought a WIN TV PVR 150 MCE KIT (part # 1062) that is supposed to be an upgrade tuner if you already have Windows XP MCE 2005. It comes with a USB IR Receiver/Blaster and a XP MCE 2005 remote that I can't get to work properly. What settings am I supposed to use when setting up MythTV?

The card has 3 RCA plugs, a Coax input and Svideo out and that's it. No FM???!!!! Hauppauge seems to make 3 different PVR 150's and I seem to have the one that no one else has!!

Should I tell it it's a PVR250/350 or use the generic V4L? I can watch TV on my

How do I get the remote to be seen? mceusb doesn't work.

Should I select i686 or i586? I've read 686 but not too sure.

I'm able to get KnoppMyth setup and watch a little jerky tv which leads me to believe I'm not using the optimal settings. Remote doesn't work period as of yet. I've read alot but as a noob I don't understand some of the stuff some ppl are doing at the command line (not that it would help). I've read the stuff people are writing about the 150 but most of the literature is for A16 or 22(which they don't want us using).

Please help! I'm about to install a copy of WinXP MCE on this thing and get it over with!!!

Please user R5A26 instead for new installs.

Yes. It's an MPEG-2 encoder. Use the PVR setting.

i686

Didn't you (or someone with the exact same hardware) already ask these exact same questions in the last day or so?

No. I didn't ask. I searched for 2 days for the answer, however.

I am using A26. I erroneously hit 22.

Thx for the replies...

Searching is good, we like searching.

Your CPU is a bit low spec for smooth playback, remember decode for playback is the computationally expensive part with a HW encoder card like this. For a CPU this slow (below 1Ghz), you really need some kind of hardware assist on playback.

You may want to try enabling XvMC if you've got a video card that supports it (NVidia or certain SiS motherboard video) although historically it's been a bit unstable,

I had this computer literally sitting in my closet for 2 years. Amazed at what little hardware you need to do this sort of stuff with Linux.

It's more of a proof-of-concept. We're looking to get rid of our digital cable DVR since we just watch analog and the HD channels we watch are local OTA anyway.

Thought about turning my dfi lanparty mobo, p4 2.8, 1 gig ram, 2x120 mb hard drives, ghetto see-thru side panel, black light, glowing round cables, etc. into a Windows XP MCE machine and happened to stumble across MythTV when looking at the Media Portal website [open source Windows HTPC app] and decided to pull the old eMachines out of the closet.

Edit: Should I look into getting the PVR 350 which has the Decoder built in as well if I were to actually use this weak system?

Incidentally, I plugged in my ATI Remote Wonder remote from my ATI AIW 9600 Pro in my Windoze box and A26 recognizes it at install time

Yes. That would provide the "hardware assist" mentioned.

Did you ever get your remote to work? I have the PVR-150 MCE also ( 1062 model) with the MCE remote, and I can't get the remote to work.

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goto http://blatter.com/mceusb if you have the phillips ehome remote...silver face/black back with a winoze logo button in the middle. If you do what he says it will work. You have to do it all and do it as he says...I tried and failed once (Newbie) but I think I skipped parts I didn't understand...the second time and it worked.

It is nice to have the remote working.

I am now going to try to get the blaster workig on my DirectTV box.

Bill

Step 3 fails, make cloneconfig.

root@mythtv:/# cd /usr/src/linux
root@mythtv:/usr/src/linux# make cloneconfig
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `cloneconfig'. Stop.
make: *** [cloneconfig] Error 2

Step 4. 0.7.0 isn't downloadable anymore.

Step 6. ./setup.sh returns:
root@mythtv:/myth/tmp/lirc-0.7.2# ls -l setup.sh
-rwxr--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 15686 Aug 14 06:23 setup.sh

root@mythtv:/myth/tmp/lirc-0.7.2# ./setup.sh
: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

So the directions are pretty useless to me right now. But prehaps they worked with a different version/os.

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OK....I just did this for like the third time (keep screwing it up when I try to get the blaster part working)....I do this from a fresh install every time because I don't understand this stuff very well. I also don't have the thing plugged in when doing all this. Try not to get frustrated...when it works it makes you smile.

Here are the steps that I used compared to his (do this exactly and I think it will work for you too):

1. get rid of those .ko files as he says.

2. I do this but they match I guess...at least the same as where the .ko's were.

3. make cloneconfig gives an error...I skipped it last time so I don't think it matters. make prepare-all is important

4. I just got the newest version (0.7.2) and downloaded it into /tmp using wget http://**address from sourceforge or whatever**

I actually didn't just "untar it somewhere". I untarred it to /usr/src/

5. the lirc source directory for me was then /usr/src/lirc-0.7.2 so I went there and untarred his latest lirc_mceusb file that I saved in /tmp using wget

6. do this exactly (ya gotta be in the /usr/src/lirc-0.7.2 directory or list the whole path) if you are in the /usr/src/lirc-0.7.2 directory type "./setup.sh"
ls has nothing to do with this part.

7. make

8. make install

9. this is a little off....i changed /etc/modules.conf I used nano....searched (ctl-w) for lirc....and put the changes in that section. using only a single space where there appears to be more spaces. I didn't have any other 61 entries.

10. depmod -a

11. tail -f /var/log/messages

plug it in and look for success...

13. copy the file as shown to /etc/lircd.conf

14. I used his lircrc_MYTH_EAXAMPLE and copied it to /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc

reboot and it works.

Great work guys! I can confirm that this works with my MCE 2005 remote and usb transceiver (Microsoft part number A90-00007).

Following the install directions on blatter.com and Doc's notes in this thread, I had it running within about 5 minutes on my R5A22 installation.

Hi phalanx,
I am running an old IBM PIl 350, ATI Rage 128 TNT2 video with an PVR-150 MCE, records and plays fine. I did have to turn off the deinterlace and add audio buffering to make it play smooth on the computer monitor. A26 i686 using settings as pvr-x50. Only problem I have is trying to make an isa network card work as I am short by one pci slot

As for the usb remote, I haven't tried it yet but will later tonight Going to try this material listed in this thread for the remote control. Looks hopeful!

Bite your lip!

Have a great day!
Mike

mooslander,

Did you get the blaster part working too?

If so let me know what you did...everything I have tried has ended up screwing up the remote again.

Doc

Hi docdailey,

Didn't even try for the blaster as I had no requirement for it. Sorry.

Mike

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Following the install directions on blatter.com and Doc's notes in this thread, I had it running within about 5 minutes on my R5A22 installation.[/quote]

I did not do that.... on R5A26 all I did was:
cp /usr/local/share/knoppmyth/remotes/mceusb2/etc/lircd.conf /etc/lircd.conf
cp /usr/local/share/knoppmyth/remotes/mceusb2/etc/lircrc /home/mythtv/.mythtv/

I also had to change /etc/init.d/lirc
from:
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/lircd -- $LIRCD_ARGS \
to:
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/lircd \

and restarted things,
If I did not make this change lircd would die as soon as I ran irw to verify the buttons.