I am back online after a failure of my HDStar tuner. I purchased it directly from Alibaba. It looks like the power supply internal to the tuner failed. I could get the tuner to come on when plugged in via USB, but it would not power on via the adapter supplied. I tried another adapter, and it did not power up. The RasPi would not power the tuner up properly from its USB port - likely not enough current for the tuner/LNB.
And, as many already know, the $40 HDStar tuner from Alibaba is no longer available.
So, I purchased the one from Outerenet in the sexy Outernet plastic case. It is just back on line, with the antenna in a permanent location:
OK - I spoke a bit too soon about successfully getting back on line.
After 20 minutes or so after rebooting the Pi, I noticed that all the LEDs on the Pi are out, except the red power light. This indicates a pretty complete crash of the system.
A hard reboot of the system brings it back up and it seems to be working OK again. Then, after 20 minutes or so, it crashes again.
I have saved the system log and application log while the system was operating, but once it crashes, the logs are gone … correct? Or, can I mount the SD card and look for the latest logs there?
Unfortunately, the third partition would not mount. When I repaired it so I could mount it, there were no logs … obviously some corruption has happened.
I don’t think I can get any useful troubleshooting info, so I am gong to reload 0.2.8 and start over.
