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Backend

Intro

I bought this tuner card ( Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 Dual TV Tuner / Encoder 1229 PCI-Express x1 Interface - OEM ) to put in my new atom based backend. It doesn't seem to be as solid as a recorder as my Das Original Air2PC cards… BUT… we'll try again.

Install

Base

Fresh install of Mythbuntu 10.04 LTS wiping out the original.
- Chose the primary backend
- Enabled ALL services: SAMBA, NFS, SSH, Mythtv
Update the packages to the latest and reboot
Install some programs I cannot live without:
1. jed:
```
 sudo apt-get install jed 
```

Configuration

Set the IP address to be static (help found here): modify /etc/network/interfaces to reflect the local IP

remove the network manager stuff
```
aptitude remove network-manager
```
remove the DHCP client:
```
sudo apt-get remove dhcp-client
```

set our IP address to what you want:

# The primary network interface                                                 
auto eth0                                                                       
iface eth0 inet static                                                          
        address xx.xx.xx.xx
        netmask 255.255.255.0                                                   
        network xx.xx.xx.xx                                                   
        broadcast xx.xx.xx.255                                               
        gateway xx.xx.xx.1                                                   
        # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed 
        dns-nameservers xx.xx.xx.xx                            
        dns-search some.domain.com

HVR-2250 Drivers

Prep:

sudo apt-get install unzip

wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/22xxdrv_27086.zip
wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip
wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/extract.sh
chmod 755 extract.sh
sh extract.sh
sudo cp *fw /lib/firmware
sudo apt-get install mercurial libncurses5-dev
hg clone http://kernellabs.com/hg/saa7164-stable/
cd saa7164-stable
make CONFIG_DVB_FIREDTV:=n
sudo make install
sudo reboot

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