[mythtv-users] SA3250HD FireWire channel changing can be a bit flaky...here's a workaround

[Matt Emmott]

On Nov 26, 2007 5:16 AM, Scott Alfter <mythtv at salfter.dyndns.org> wrote:

> Brian Long wrote:
> > On Nov 25, 2007 2:19 AM, Scott Alfter <mythtv at salfter.dyndns.org> wrote:
> >> sa3250ch (in the contrib directory) doesn't send leading zeroes on
> channel
> >> numbers less than 100, and it doesn't send Enter on any channels.
> >
> > When I had SA 3250HD's, I found the internal channel changer in SVN
> > trunk was much better than the contrib script.  If you're still
> > running 0.20.x, I think you're stuck with the external changer, but if
> > you're running trunk, you could try the internal changer since it's
> > more robust.
>
> I had been running trunk for the past few days, but reverted to
> 0.20.2-fixes.
> (I'm using the same build level of both (14917, IIRC), and the updated
> schema
> appears to mostly work with the older branch.)  My attempts at getting the
> channel changer working right, which I thought I had fixed in the previous
> message, haven't worked so well...I think it might work for recordings,
> but
> doesn't work so well for live-TV testing (where I get lots of
> "RingBuf(/some/path/to/file.mpg) Error: Invalid file descriptor in
> 'safe_read()'" messages from the backend).
>
> I didn't know there was an internal changer in trunk.  If I switch back to
> it,
> how do I enable the internal changer?  I didn't notice a checkbox for it,
> but I
> might've skipped right by it.
>
>
>
I'm running 0.20.2. Can somebody explain how to load up this external tuner?
I've got the SA3250HD and I can never change channels via firewire.
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