[mythtv] I finally have a DirecTV working...but I still have a few questions.

[tarek Lubani]

What exactly do you mean by the bars thing? If you mean the menu bars, one 
way you can change that is by setting the bars to auto-hide after X 
seconds.. I do this, and it works relatively well..

As for the second issue that you raised, you can set it such that there is 
a small if statement in your program that does your channel changing.. and 
basically the if statement would run a little like this:

if the channel is set to <15 (or whatever your CATV channel limit is), then 
also send out the command to turn off the TV.. and you could also have it 
say that if the channel is set to >15 (or >100 to allow room for 
expansion), turn on the receiver.. The following should happen:

1) START: You are set to channel 550 watching a cool indie flick.
2) You change the tuner to TV.
3) You hit up/down to get to the next "available" channel on your cable tv 
tuner..
4) Your program executes; hits the "if" statement, and turns off the 
receiver.. maybe writes a little file that keeps track of receiver status 
so that it doesn't toggle power everytime you change channels in cable..
5) You change back to satellite.. Your other if statement is true, and the 
receiver is turned back on..
6) END

I know this is a hack easily resolved by myth sending out other commands, 
but still, it will work and the program may be fun to make : )

tarek : )

>-MythTVs full screen does not take the bars away. Is there a setting that 
>I might be missing? I'm running GNome but I tried KDE and sliding the bars 
>I discover that the video is full screen but is running under the bars.
>
>-And my last comment/suggestion/question: in the same way that now we have 
>the external channel in the settings, from where it is possible to call a 
>script to change channels of an external receiver, is it possible to 
>define script calls base on other "events"? Like for example when changing 
>source, etc. I would like to turn my direct tv box on and off, because my 
>tunner reception us much better when it is off.