Help us to nail down the general problems with some technotrend cards (5 Viewers)

[Ruud]

You should check your power configuration in device manager, i.e. if you USB controller allows to disconnect/shutdown on idle or suspend.

Maybe this can help to keep your USB on power while suspension.

If the DEVCON way works (your link) you could use MPStandByHandler and do the same thing inside a batch file. At least to get an idea if the device works properly after resume

Okay,
did some 'fiddling' around in my setup: The USB controllers cannot be configured to stay on power, this is in the windows setup. Keeping the TT powered on is also not a valid option as this thing runs hot when being used / not used so I definitely want it to powerdown when going into hibernation.
The devcon utility is a no go. When it detaches the devices from the USB bus, Windows pops up stating that my hardware has changed and that the PC needs a reboot (and that is what I'm trying to avoid.)

So actually I'm looking for a way to 'soft-reset' the TT / driver after hibernation....

@Morpheus: are there in the log file any leads as to what the TT doesn't do any more after standby?

regards,
Ruud.

 

[Ruud]

Hi,

today was not such a good day.... had to restart for appr. 7 times because of 'channel scrambled' and CI popup.
This was the worst instability for my system, I ran the log collector: fresh start, trying to tune twice to a radio channel.... unfortunately (or looking at it from a log collector, this was actually a good thing ) both times did not work.

please note that I only try channels that are not FTA but that are covered by my subscription!

anway, logs attached.

and of course needles to say: merry Christmas to all!

regards,
Ruud.

 

[romadd64]

You should check your power configuration in device manager, i.e. if The devcon utility is a no go. When it detaches the devices from the USB bus, Windows pops up stating that my hardware has changed and that the PC needs a reboot (and that is what I'm trying to avoid.)

Ruud,

devcon must be launched when no program is using the card (i.e. TVServer must be stopped before). So no message pop up from Windows. Or you can configure PowerScheduler Plugin (in TVserver) to launch a batch after/before cards are released/reassigned to TVServer on standby/resume. The batch will receive a parameter valued as suspend or resume, and here you call devcon to stop or restart the card

Best regards,
romadd

 

[Ruud]

Hi Romadd,

thanks for your reply, I was trying it from a cmd file fired from the tvservice powerscheduler plugin. Will try to first stop the tvservice before releasing and readressing the usb card.
When this will work then it will only be a partial solution: apart from the not being detected after hibernation (which can be solved by forcing a reboot), there are also the problems of the 'ci menu popping up', 'channel scrambled' messages that force you to click 3 times on a radio channel before it is actually tuned, etc.

What I read on the internet is that the returning from hibernation / standby in combination with usb hardware is really an XP issue. I am wondering if this behavior will be fixed in Windows 7.

EDIT: okay so stopping the TV service prior to removing and rescanning the USB prevented the reboot question, but it still does not work: when starting the TV service again the service is unable to recognize the tvcard(s) in manual control they are listed as 'n/a'. So back to rebooting the PC grrrrrrrrrr.
I really hope that this will be fixed in some way, this is becoming a big frustration as this functionality is key in my long time usage of MP: ... glad to have that of my chest

regards,
Ruud.

 

[Ruud]

Hi,

Just wondering if the 'subject' of this thread is still valid? I see (almost) no activity (only one view on attached logs) in this thread.
Not nagging just wondering what is going on

thanks,
Ruud.

 

[Olly666]

Hi!

I am just waiting for the final release of MP 1.1 - so far I had bad luck with my CI-3650 and MP while DVBViewer runs fine. Anyway it´s not that comfortable and I would like to use MP, but if does not work... what shall I do. I will try to check again next time I have some spare time and will let you all know the state.


Regards,
Olly

 

[stounedi]

EDIT:
Everything is working perfect now!

I didnt do anything. Today I just booted up my HTPC to make some changes, and there were no more problems present.

I hope they dont reappear

 

[Olly666]

Hi stounedi!

I hope things are running well still. I need to check out still - will do so this weekend. Maybe you can tell me which drivers, codecs etc. you are using? Maybe some details about your tv server config would be fine, too.

Thanks in advance and best regards,
Olly

 

[Zappza]

Hmm, I am having problems with my CT-3650-CI USB-Module. I get BSODs using the 1.0.2.20 driver posted by Ruud, and the TV channels will not descramble using 1.4.2.0. I am running MP 1.1.0 RC2. While using the 1.0.2.20 tuning and descrambling works fine, but because of the BSODs, it's not much good anyway.

edit: here are Client logs, and TV-server logs.

edit2: I know that it is the Technotrend card that is causing the BSOD, I have analyzed the kernel dumpfiles and they all point to ttusb2bda.sys

 

[stounedi]

Ok now I have been playing around with the TechnoTrend T-1500 + CI for some time.

The card has a problem. I only sleep my HTPC, dont turn it off completily. Maybe once or twice a week the T-1500 gives "Cannot start graph" error.

1. I tried to stop & start TV Service, but after that none of my TV cards work at all!
2. If I put "Reinitialize" tag to Powerscheduler, Mediaportal hangs up at "Initializing input devices" and does not start at all!
3. Reboot fixes the "Cannot start graph" error.

Anyone had this error or got some tips how to fix it? I dont have any error logs at hand right now.

Very annoying error, because atm Anysee USB device is working 100% for me but I need another tuner and also T-1500 is my only tuner that and descramble channels (only one with CI).


EDIT: After reading this thread ONCE more, I will have to try fiddling with MPStandByHandler. I can report back after a week if it helped or not... But I'm afraid it wont help because I have tried to stop + start TVService manually and after that no tv-card works... Not even my USB AnySee that never stops working under normal conditions.

EDIT2: I never got the TechnoTrend 100% working, so I leave it as the third tuner. I have 2 anysee tuners too, and they work flawlessly. I usually dont need the third tuner so even it's the failing TT, I dont care