[mythtv-users] Scheduling recordings from a satellite box

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Fri Jul 21 21:11:09 UTC 2006


On Jul 21, 2006, at 1:45 PM, JCA wrote:

>> What you are saying is that you will at the moment be changing the  
>> channels
>> on your sat box manually. But Myth still expects to be able to  
>> control the
>> external box. It expects channel change scripts to return a value  
>> of true so
>> it knows that it has successfully changed the channel on the  
>> external sat
>> box. You can trick myth into thinking it has a working channel  
>> change script
>> by setting the channel change script to be "/bin/true" without the  
>> quote
>> marks.
>>
>> Hope this helps you understand,
>
>    This is EXACTLY what I was missing! In the mythtv-setup
> configuration box provided for the channel change script I had
> nothing. Under such conditions, and again when using an S-Video cable
> from the satellite box to the MythTV PC, mythtv would sometimes
> succeed to do the recordings I had scheduled, but most of the time it
> would fail, with the error messages I reported. After I set the
> channel change script to /bin/true, all of my scheduled recordings
> were carried out flawlessly.
>
>    Thanks very much. This issue was beginning to drive me up the wall.

What would drive me up the wall is having to remember to change the  
channel manually every time a recording was about to begin. :)



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