[mythtv-users] External channel change not passing channel

David Watkins watkinshome at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 07:57:58 UTC 2007


On 01/04/07, duck <tduckett at tdux.com> wrote:
> For some reason Myth is not passing the channel number to the external
> channel changer script.  I have removed all cards from my server except
> the pvr-150 and tried several tests and cannot get the external channel
> change to work.  If I run the directv.pl script by hand it functions
> properly!  I am using the latest mythtv version .0.20 and I even tried
> using an older version and it still did not work.  No errors in any of
> the log files.  Thank you!!!

you could edit your channel change script to echo the parameter into
an file.  Then you would find out:

a)  whether myth was actually calling the script.
b)  what parameter (if any) myth is passing to it.


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