[mythtv-users] External channel change not passing channel

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Apr 1 17:40:58 UTC 2007


On 04/01/2007 04:25 AM, duck wrote:
> 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.
> 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.
Chances are your command is not properly configured.  (PATH problem?)  
So, without your providing info on how you've configured it, it's hard 
for us to tell you how to fix the configuration...  ;)

Mike


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