[mythtv-users] Ian's neat shell script for verifying working channels

Steve Adeff adeffs at gmail.com
Tue Jan 10 14:43:14 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 10 January 2006 06:26, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> Ian Forde <ian at duckland.org> says:
> > I replaced the task with a small shell script.
>
> Nice; I have it running now. Notes for others:
>
> * Obviously, change the paths for test-mpeg2 and 6200ch.
> * You'll want to modify the 2 in the following line:
>
>         ${GETCH} -r 2 > /tmp/testscan.${channum} &
>
> to whatever node your FireWire connection is on. When I added a second
> cable box, my FireWire connections rearranged themselves and are now
> on nodes 1 and 3 versus 2 previously.
>
> My cable provider does not encode any channels over FireWire with 5C,
> so I'm more curious as to what channels will show up that I didn't
> know about.

probably none.
oh, and: you lucky bastard ;-)
me=jealous...

-- 
Steve


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