[mythtv-users] Live tv does not work with channel changer, times out

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Jul 29 17:42:55 UTC 2007


On 07/28/2007 07:53 PM, James Armstrong wrote:
> Is there a setting for the amount of time the frontend waits for the backend
> when starting live tv? I have a dishnetwork channel changing script and the
> frontend times out before the backend finishes changing channels and starts
> the recording ring buffer. I can see it in the backend changing the channels
> and the frontend stops, then the backend complains about the socket handle
> being invalid because the frontend had exited live tv mode. It works if I
> start a recording on the dish input then do live tv because it forces it to
> use the OTA hd inputs that don't have the channel changing script.

You can write your channel change script to call another script and then
exit (with a 0 status).  The second script does the actual channel
change (i.e. is your current script) and the only purpose of the first
script is to pass on the message and exit quickly.

Mike


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