OpenDCT: An open source digital cable tuner.

[foolio]

Originally Posted by EnterNoEscape

Do you have any 3rd party firewalls running? It looks like OpenDCT does connect to the SageTV media server, but then it can't write anything. Maybe the SageTV logs from the same time frame could help too.

Edit: This is supported by the fact that in the log the last thing you see regarding moving data is an attempt to connect to SageTV through the media server. Not too long after that, the buffer on OpenDCT's side becomes full.

It turned out I had a 64-bit version of java installed (as well as older 32-bit versions.) I ended up cleaning house and just installing newest 32-bit java and that fixed it...

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by foolio

It turned out I had a 64-bit version of java installed (as well as older 32-bit versions.) I ended up cleaning house and just installing newest 32-bit java and that fixed it...

It's good to see you got it working. wrapper.log probably had some relevant native warnings that might help you out in the future.

[waylo]

Hi @EnterNoEscape,

The music stations on my Comcast broadcast have been acting up again. I know we had worked on this for a while a few years ago, and setting the consumer to RAW had fixed it. But it has an odd choppiness with skipping again.

What logs/files would you need to help troubleshoot?

[wit713]

I want to first Thank everyone for all the hard work that has been going on. Through all the hard work of everyone, I was able to easily covert my old WHS v1 Sage TV 7 to Unraid Sage TV 9 back in April. I also went from a original HDHomerun and HDPVR setup to HDHomerun Prime. I did not want to deal trying to get the HDPVR to work in unraid.

In the last week or two, I have been getting more and more halt detected recordings. I am using HD Homerun Prime (firmware Version 20161117) on Verizon to do my recordings. It would not happen on all recordings. It was first happening to programs on the Discovery but I had another one on AMC today.

From another post, I added the file to get the sage native logs and restarted both the OpenDCT and Sage dockers.

I have made no modificatons to the opendct properties files.

Attached are the wrapper, native and sagetv logs. My favorite that failed on channel 731 started at 1:59 AM EST and let it continue until 3:00 AM. During this time, I looked at the tuner status in the prime gui and signal quality and strength were strong. In addition, I accessed the same channel on my hdhomerun xbox gui on another tuner with no problems. Earlier, I looked at live tv on channel 502 (Batman) as a test and that worked successfully.

Can someone take a look? Thanks.

[JustFred]

Originally Posted by wit713

In the last week or two, I have been getting more and more halt detected recordings. I am using HD Homerun Prime (firmware Version 20161117) on Verizon to do my recordings.

That version of firmware is known to be problematic: https://forum.silicondust.com/forum/...rt=195#p291140

First recommendation would be to update the firmware. The beta that was released on 20170512 seems good, but I haven't been following the progress since then. Have a look at SiliconDust's forums for the most recent info.

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by waylo

Hi @EnterNoEscape,

The music stations on my Comcast broadcast have been acting up again. I know we had worked on this for a while a few years ago, and setting the consumer to RAW had fixed it. But it has an odd choppiness with skipping again.

What logs/files would you need to help troubleshoot?

If you're streaming raw, then OpenDCT is just sending SageTV exactly what it's getting from Comcast. Some players don't work well with Music Choice channels because they are right on the edge of what the MPEG2 standard allows.

My guess would be either Comcast changed the stream format a little, OpenDCT isn't receiving/transmitting all of the packets for some reason or SageTV is playing the video back too close to the edge of the stream. I know that the SageTV full Windows client has never been able to pace itself correctly with Music Choice at least for me. The result is that it reaches the end of the stream, pauses, then resumes.

I would be mostly interested in the log file from OpenDCT when you are trying to watch the stream live just to be sure there isn't anything funny going on with the OpenDCT part of the equation.

[waylo]

Originally Posted by EnterNoEscape

If you're streaming raw, then OpenDCT is just sending SageTV exactly what it's getting from Comcast. Some players don't work well with Music Choice channels because they are right on the edge of what the MPEG2 standard allows.

My guess would be either Comcast changed the stream format a little, OpenDCT isn't receiving/transmitting all of the packets for some reason or SageTV is playing the video back too close to the edge of the stream. I know that the SageTV full Windows client has never been able to pace itself correctly with Music Choice at least for me. The result is that it reaches the end of the stream, pauses, then resumes.

I would be mostly interested in the log file from OpenDCT when you are trying to watch the stream live just to be sure there isn't anything funny going on with the OpenDCT part of the equation.

Thanks again for the refresher.

Attached is the opendct.log for the relevant recording attempt this AM.

Also a link to the short 5 minutes recording is here: https://app.box.com/s/xen8fm8nng3p29ft06oybpk9muly3vm8

Playing it in an external player, there are some snags in the first minute or so but afterwards it sounds intact.

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by waylo

Thanks again for the refresher.

Attached is the opendct.log for the relevant recording attempt this AM.

Also a link to the short 5 minutes recording is here: https://app.box.com/s/xen8fm8nng3p29ft06oybpk9muly3vm8

Playing it in an external player, there are some snags in the first minute or so but afterwards it sounds intact.

I don't see anything interesting in the log. Try changing hdhr.allow_http_tuning to false in opendct.properties.

[wit713]

I updated my Prime to the latest beta firmware (20170612beta1). I still can not tune in the Discovery HD through live TV (I can view it on a Android phone and Windows 10) but I have the non-HD channel as a favorite. I will continue to wait and see with my Favorite recordings. Thanks.

[razrsharpe]

I'm in the process of upgrading to v9 (so far so good) and considering switching to OpenDCT from SageDCT as it seems like it is the current preferred prime tuner (I get occasional corrupted recordings with my sagedct setup). Now to my question: I am still running win2003 with prime firmware 20140604. This is the latest software/firmware I could successfully install on win2003. Will OpenDCT work with this ancient setup or am i better off waiting until i finally upgrade the OS to something modern...


Thanks!

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

I'm in the process of upgrading to v9 (so far so good) and considering switching to OpenDCT from SageDCT as it seems like it is the current preferred prime tuner (I get occasional corrupted recordings with my sagedct setup). Now to my question: I am still running win2003 with prime firmware 20140604. This is the latest software/firmware I could successfully install on win2003. Will OpenDCT work with this ancient setup or am i better off waiting until i finally upgrade the OS to something modern...


Thanks!

OpenDCT talks to the prime directly, and doesn't require any SiliconDust software or drivers on the computer at all. You will have to download and run the latest installer on a PC somewhere on your network to update the firmware on the tuner, but that is all you'd need it for.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by wit713

I updated my Prime to the latest beta firmware (20170612beta1). I still can not tune in the Discovery HD through live TV (I can view it on a Android phone and Windows 10) but I have the non-HD channel as a favorite. I will continue to wait and see with my Favorite recordings. Thanks.

Does the channel show up in the Channel Lineup on the prime's web ui? If so, is it marked with a DRM icon?

[Tiki]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

OpenDCT talks to the prime directly, and doesn't require any SiliconDust software or drivers on the computer at all. You will have to download and run the latest installer on a PC somewhere on your network to update the firmware on the tuner, but that is all you'd need it for.

I recall seeing posts that OpenDCT did not work correctly with some older versions of HDHR firmware. I don't remember what the specific issue was or what minimum firmware revision was recommended though.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

OpenDCT talks to the prime directly, and doesn't require any SiliconDust software or drivers on the computer at all. You will have to download and run the latest installer on a PC somewhere on your network to update the firmware on the tuner, but that is all you'd need it for.

I can work with that. It seams the only remaining question is if OpenDCT will work correctly with windows 2003? I searched but didn't come up with anything...

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

I can work with that. It seams the only remaining question is if OpenDCT will work correctly with windows 2003? I searched but didn't come up with anything...

I can't think of a reason it wouldn't. It's pretty contained within it's JVM, and can't think of much dependency on the system it might have.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by Tiki

I recall seeing posts that OpenDCT did not work correctly with some older versions of HDHR firmware. I don't remember what the specific issue was or what minimum firmware revision was recommended though.

I don't see a reason to not throw at least the latest non-beta on there. (that said, I just checked, and I've got 20150826 on my HDHR3-CC, and 20150406 on my HDHR-US - don't think I've visited the silicondust site since then, but I'm sure there's much newer firmwares than that.)

[NetworkGuy]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

I'm in the process of upgrading to v9 (so far so good) and considering switching to OpenDCT from SageDCT as it seems like it is the current preferred prime tuner (I get occasional corrupted recordings with my sagedct setup). Now to my question: I am still running win2003 with prime firmware 20140604. This is the latest software/firmware I could successfully install on win2003. Will OpenDCT work with this ancient setup or am i better off waiting until i finally upgrade the OS to something modern...

Thanks!

When I switched to OpenDCT, the firmware on my Prime was also from 2014. I had some problems and upgraded the firmware to 20150826. Which solved the issues.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

I can't think of a reason it wouldn't. It's pretty contained within it's JVM, and can't think of much dependency on the system it might have.

Well that might be true but the installer fails with a message requiring a min vista / server 2008... looking like i will be testing a linux / unraid setup in the near future...

Originally Posted by NetworkGuy

When I switched to OpenDCT, the firmware on my Prime was also from 2014. I had some problems and upgraded the firmware to 20150826. Which solved the issues.

Thanks!

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

Well that might be true but the installer fails with a message requiring a min vista / server 2008... looking like i will be testing a linux / unraid setup in the near future...

The MSI can be altered to allow it. Someone did it to use the installer on XP by doing that; I believe the steps or a link to a guide are somewhere on this thread. I just didn't want to provide support for older operating systems in case they have their own special bugs.

[wit713]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

Does the channel show up in the Channel Lineup on the prime's web ui? If so, is it marked with a DRM icon?

The channel does show up in the guide and it is not marked drm. I had another halt last this night on the non-HD Discovery Channel.

I have been slowly reading every post in this thread. Lot of good information. Up to page 59.