[mythtv-users] Changing channels on DCT2000 series/audio questions

Mark J. Small msmall at eastlink.ca
Fri Jan 20 19:59:11 UTC 2006


On January 20, 2006 03:35 pm, John Brooks wrote:
> Hi! I'm struggling with getting my MythTV box going- it's been a lot more
> difficult than I'd expected, but I'm really close. I have two issues in
> front of me now:
>
> 1.) When I try to change channels, I end up getting static on every other
> channel except channel three. I'm guessing that this is because the channel
> I'm changing is on the OVR receiver, and not the Motorola DCT2000 series
> set top box I'm connected to. I have a serial cable going out from the
> first serial port (which I'm assuming is ttyS0), and I got my hands on a
> copy of "channel" from here:
>
> http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5906&view=previous&
>
> Once I got the permissions on ttyS0 set correctly, I told mythtv to use
> /usr/bin/channel to change channels; this does not appear to work. I'm not
> sure how to look for output that might tell em what's going wrong here.

Have you tried using the change channel script directly.  As in

/usr/bin/channel 24

Does that change the channel for you?  

Mark


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