[mythtv-users] External channel change not passing channel

duck tduckett at tdux.com
Sun Apr 1 08:25:43 UTC 2007


David Watkins wrote:
> 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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I wrote a simple shell script:

channel_changer
echo $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8  $9 > test
/capture/directv.pl box_type RCA_OLD setup_channel $1

output in test
/channel/changer

The channel number is never being passed.


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