[mythtv] detecting activity - not signal.

[Peter Hartmann]

Thanks Steve...I'm going to add that to my channel change script and
see if that helps.


Peter


On 9/24/07, Steve Daniels <steve.p.daniels at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 23/09/2007, Peter Hartmann <ascensiontech at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My cable company has been in the habit of rebooting my cable box
> > literally every day.  As a result a lot of my recorded programs just
> > have a black screen.  If anyone has dealt with this could you help?
> > I've seen a lot of talk about detecting signal level in the archives.
> > I think that the signal level is strong while I'm recording black
> > screen, so I don't think that's the issue. If no solution exists, I
> > was thinking of running a script from cron to analyze a short sampling
> > from /dev/video0 and initiate the correct lirc code to turn on by
> > digital video cable box if the right information is gathered .    This
> > depends upon being able to sample  /dev/video0 while mythtv may be
> > recording.  Not sure if that's gonna work.  Anyway my ideal script
> > will either make use of some yet unknown spectrum analyzer or get
> > statistics from a an encoder log file from perhaps ffmeg. Anyone care
> > to comment?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Peter
>
> Have you had a look for discrete "on" IR codes for your cable box? You
> could just fire one of these on every channel change to ensure the
> cable box is on?
>
> HTH
>
> Steve Daniels
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