This is a how-to for getting the HVR-2250 setup on LinHES. I used the following as a guide:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... ost7344302

Run the following after logging in as mythtv user:

Dude, you should make a PKGBUILD for this and upload it to flyspray to have it included.

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This no longer works in 6.03. I haven't started debugging yet but has anyone else gotten the HVR-2250 to work on 6.03?

Yes. First I did:


to install the main dvb tree. You'll figure out that the saa7164 is probably not up to date enough for your 2250.

The other thing I figured out was the latest stable was not working because of a firmware size mismatch. I had on old version of the driver on my system, dated Dec 19, 2009. You will probably have to retry this process several times to get a driver that works, looking at the output of dmesg to make sure the firmware loaded properly.

So, you'll have to download the a stable release from mercurial and compile (in general follow the guide, install firmwares, etc).

What I did next was use the find command to find the driver and only install the 2250 driver.



and then copy to:

/lib/modules/2.6.28-LinHES/kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164.ko

HTH.

I installed LinHES 07.00.02 in the hope that the 2.6.37 kernel would have my HVR-2250 working OOTB on my newly built MythTV box (hopefully soon will be.)

Well, lspci does show the device (apparently correctly) but the it will not set up the device. Would you consider breaking the above down into a more simple step-by-step for inexperienced arch linux users? I would very much like to become a LinHES / MythTV user, but I need to get this card working ASAP. I will only consider MythTV solutions, but would have to switch distros in order to get the device working? (Mythbuntu is my second choice.)

Any assistance would be much appreciated. Thanks so much.

I installed R7.0.3 with a build date of 9/14/2011

lspci -v shows

Multimedia controller: Phillips Semiconductors SAA7164 (rev 81)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTv HVR-2250
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at fa800000 (64bit, non prefetchable) [size=4m]
Memory at fa400000 (64bit, non prefetchable) [size=4m]
...
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Kernel modules: ath9k

My test box is ZOTAC Atom IONITX-F

uname -r = 2.6.39-LinHES

Myth Setup does not find the card....

Update



showed that a firmware file is missing

nxp7164-2010-03-10.1.fw

It needs to be in

/lib/firmware

http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx ... 03-10.1.fw

Then reboot

When I enter myth setup the card shows as "Analog V4L capture card"
All I had to do was create two tuners since the card has dual tuners..

Is anyone using the digital HD tuners? Or is everyone just using the analog tuners?

To clarify the HVR-2250 works fine in digital HD OTA mode. I'm testing is it right now, on R7.03 Build Date 9/14/2011.

Here's what needs to be done in Myth Setup

Under Capture cards select DVB DTV Capture Card (v3.x)
The frontend id will display Samsung S5H1411 QAM/Subtype: ATSC
once it's configured it appears like this.


Additionally from reading in the ubuntu forum
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1567490&page=10

I think the card can do analog cable and OTA HD digital if you change recording options to.


I haven't tested this with analog cable yet...

So far R7.03 Build Date 9/14/2011 is working properly with this card

For anyone searching about analog and this card:

I can confirm that Digital and Analog both work out of the box in 7.1. Just make sure you set the recording options just as RacerX mentioned.

EDIT: Also make sure to set input groups on each tuner so that mythtv doesn't try to record both analog and digital at the same time on a tuner: http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO.html#toc12.6

Thanks!

-Joe