Firewire on TW SA3250

[vasqued2]

Does anyone have firewire out working on a Time Warner SA3250?

I've got mine hooked up to my MythTV setup and I can change channels via firewire but I get no output streaming output even for the OTA channels.

Thanks!
David

[TheCableGuy]

What device is it connected to? All firewire ports are active in our system. (CP protection screen) Firewire enable always

[vasqued2]

I've got it hooked up to MythTV, which is an open source Linux DVR I build on a home pc.

I suspect that the problem is on the PC side but wanted to confirm. I can change channels using the firewire connection. I also see the connection on the go from Idle to Active in the Diagnostic menu on the 3250 when I attempt to record from channel 714.

I have Passport 3.3 Build 017. Evidently there is a bug w/ this build that sets the flag permanently to 'Copy Once' instead of 'Copy Freely' if you tune to a copy protected channel until you reboot. This is corrected in Passport 3.3 Build 029. I called to try to get them to push the upgrade to my box but got nowhere.

Even w/ Build 017 however, I'm having problems no matter whether it is set to 'Copy Once' or 'Copy Freely', again as stated in the Diagnostics menu. This is why I suspect the problem is on the PC side, but just looking for someone to confirm they've got it working.

Thanks
David

[zelig2]

Which version of MythTV are you running?

[vasqued2]

I just upgraded to 0.19.

[zelig2]

I read that 0.19 included the feature to do recording off of firewire. I haven't heard anyone's experiences with it yet though. The previous method was to use someone's module they made that added into Myth for using firewire connections.

I started to set a MythTV box in the previous version but ran out of desire.