[mythtv-users] External channel change bug on 0.16

Donavan Stanley GeckoFiend at gmail.com
Tue Oct 26 22:39:05 UTC 2004


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:49:22 +0100, Colin Bell <colinb at gatewest.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I use a serial devie to change channels (red eye) on a cable box. It
> all worked fine on 0.14 on Mandrake 9.2.
> I have now upgraded to Mandrake 10.1 and I've pretty much got
> everything running again with Mythtv 0.16 except the external channel
> change command. If I type it into the console with a channel number
> (ie: /usr/bin/red_eye 120) it works fine, but even though its
> configured in the setup it doesn't do anything. I can see the "usage:
> device_com_port sendstring" in the logs so I know its being triggered.
> 
> I have also tried putting the command into a shell script and calling
> that instead,
> "/usr/local/bin/channel_change.csh"
> 
> #!/bin/csh
> echo "Changing to channel $1"
> /usr/local/bin/red_eye $1
> 
> but nothing happens there either (the script works if I access it from
> the command line) plus I don't see the "Changing to channel X" being
> produced either in the logs or the console.
> 
> I can only assume this is a bug unless anyone can tell me otherwise.

I can tell you that external channel changers work just fine in .16
with both FC1 and Suse 9.1


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