[mythtv-users] Re: MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??

[Mike Frisch]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:08:53AM -0700, Scott S. wrote:
> There's typically three things could happen when it fails, one is it
> could do nothing. It's rare but it's happened a couple of times),
> another is that it misses a digit (usually at the beginning or middle
> of the channel number), and the third is that it may repeat a number
> (for instance 8 turns into 88). I'm not sure why this would happen in
> just Myth. I've used TVtime and XawTV to test the channel changing
> from the command line, and that works flawlessly, changing the channel
> while Myth is running and watching live TV also works flawlessly. It
> only fails when Myth itself tries to change  the channel with the
> MyBlaster.pl script.

I have the exact problem.  Not sure why it happens, but I simply added
two "dummy" commands (two "Exit" commands sent to my satellite receiver)
to my script and it seems to work okay now.  My channel changer script
works perfectly from the command-line, but seems to lag from within
MythTV.

Somebody mentioned using "nice" to increase the priority to the channel
changing command (irsend, in my case) but I didn't figure out how to
formulate the command-line to do that.