[mythtv] external channel changing..

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Mon May 9 21:03:56 UTC 2005


travis eddy wrote:

> hello, i just updated from .16 to .18 and apparently you guys chaned
> something involving the external channel changing part of myth??? i
> dunno, i have a friend that codes for a living and said if you guys
> could tell me where the function is in the myth source tree he could
> porbably adjust .18 to work like .16..... thanks
>
> and if your woundering .18 does two things eather change channels
> constantly or changes and then changes back to something else ( it
> seems to like 227 ). i dunno my scrpit is simple it takes 3 numbers
> ex: ./lptout2 205. then it sends those number to the lpt port and my
> home made box changes the channel to the numbers sent to it. very
> basic but the only way that i can have myth( or a comptuer for that
> matter) controal a DISH box.


My best guess is that the channel change your friend wrote for you is
returning an error code instead of success which causes the backend to
think the channel change failed.


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