Larry Brigman wrote: > You need to determine which side is losing the connection. Silicondust > does have a decent Linux Forum. > Is everything up to date on the 14.04? I had tried to setup TVHeadend on > Linux. At the time I tried it, things > were not all that stable with the V4L drivers and the HDHomeRun. > > Something else that could cause problems is time. Is ntp running? Does > the time step every once in a while? > > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:06 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > >> My house is wired with Cat6 ethernet to which everything is connected, >> including an HDHomeRun TV tuner (the Connect, not the Extend or the >> Prime). The incoming signal is just an over the air antenna. The router >> is a D-Link DIR-860L B1 (thanks again, Russell). The router also >> supplies wireless, used only by my phone and my laptop, although the >> laptop is also wired. >> >> Everything works perfectly except that the HDHomeRun Config GUI pops up >> a 'communication error' message periodically. Sometimes I can go a >> couple days without it happening, but this evening it happened three >> times, one right after the other. I can recover just by scrolling up or >> down in the channel list in the HDHomeRun confit GUI. In other words, >> this is a major annoyance, but not a total fail. >> >> Side note: All my computers are just straight Xubuntu 14.04, up to >> date. There is no mythtv installed. All I use to view television on VLC >> is the HDHomeRun Config GUI. >> >> The manufacturer, Silicondust, provides occasional firmware updates. >> The latest is dated 8/15/2017 and I have applied it, but there was no >> change in the frequency of the errors. >> >> At the last Clinic I brought up this issue and Tomas suggested setting >> up a cron job to ping the HDHomeRun device periodically. After thinking >> about it I think that this would accomplish nothing. It would respond >> to the ping and several hours later would lose the connection again. >> >> I could use some suggestions. >> _______________________________________________ >> >> John,
Could be a bad cable or a loose connection. Ken _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
