[mythtv-users] Trouble with ir blaster from myth, fine in a shell

[James Ogle]

Nick wrote:

>On 8/17/05, James Ogle <jogle at wetafx.co.nz> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Last night I setup an IR blaster on my myth box (knoppmyth R5A16) using
>>this guide, http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4462
>>
>>I got to the point of making a channel_change.sh script which works
>>flawlessly on the command line. But when I put the change command into
>>the correct box in myth-setup (and reboot to make sure it's picked up by
>>mythbackend) It doesn't change the channels. The script has its
>>permissions opened right up and is executable
>>    
>>
>
>James,
>
>Please post your channel change script. It could be not using full
>pathnames to irsend or something similar in the script, so that it
>works from the script when run from the shell, but not from within
>MythTV.
>
>Nick
>  
>

Nick,

I dont think thats the problem, This is the script I'm using, its 
straight from the guide I used. Before I commented out the last line, I 
would get an error that SELECT wasn't a valid code in the command line, 
and the myth backend log would say that the script exited with error 
code somethingorrather.

#!/bin/sh
STB_NAME=DCT2000
for digit in $(echo $1 | sed -e 's/./& /g'); do
  irsend --device=/dev/lircd1 SEND_ONCE $STB_NAME $digit
  sleep 0.4
done
#irsend --device=/dev/lircd1 SEND_ONCE $STB_NAME SELECT


I just had a thought that my channel setup might be wrong. The channel 
setup window is very confusing with what goes where. I have the channel 
number I want to change to external STB to in the Channel Number field 
on the first page of channel setup. Should I also be putting it in the 
Frequency box on the second page?

-James

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