Me TV

Doesn't find channels

Asked by ayellen

I'm using a WinTV-HVR-950 on Ubuntu 7.10.

Basically, I start up Me-TV and it searches for channels and doesn't find anything. I currently use TVtime, but want to switch to Me-TV for recording capabilities. I noticed that TVtime uses dev/video00, whereas Me-TV uses dev/dvb/something-or-other/dvr0. Now this exists on my computer, so it must go with my adapter, right? Yet it doesn't find stations!

Help?!?!

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Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Your tuner card (HVR-950) has 2 tuners in it, one analog and one digital. I think that /dev/videoX devices are analog and /dev/dvb/X devices are digital.

Obviously your analog setup is working fine but maybe your digital setup is not. Have you managed to get this DVB device, driver and antenna combination working on any other linux/windows application? I think that TVTime does have DVB capabilities but I've never got them to work, it's probably just using your analog device by default.

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Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Ooops ... wrong button.

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ayellen (ayellen) said : 		#3

From what I've read, yes the card has 2 tuners in it. Also, TVtime doesn't do digital. I have gotten the digital tuner to work in the included windows software, but never even tried it in Linux since I haven't found a software that reads it that I actualy like.

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Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#4

You need to confirm that your device is working under Linux. I suggest that you start by using scan to generate a channels.conf, I guess that would be a good start. What distro are you using?

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ayellen (ayellen) said : 		#5

I figured it out. Turns out the problem was not with the software but with the cable itself. My cable signal was not compatible with the software. (My antenna signal, though, is...go figure.)