[mythtv-users] changechannel issue

matt lutz myth.matt.lutz at gmail.com
Fri Jun 15 21:04:26 UTC 2007


On 6/14/07, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14/06/07, matt lutz <myth.matt.lutz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I have directv and I'm controlling my receiver via the serial port.  I'm
> > using the directv.pl script.  Everything has worked fine for a couple of
> > years, until recently.  Sometimes the channel does not change properly
> for
> > recordings.  When I manually change while watching live TV, everything
> > always seems fine, but this has now happened 4 times in the past couple
> of
> > weeks.  Is there any debugging I can look at to see if something's up?
> > There's nothing in the logs to indicate a problem at the time of the
> > recording...
>
> Have you had any channel updates in the past few weeks? You may find
> that the channel number that is being passed to the script
> (channel.freqid) on channel change is missing/corrupted. You can use
> the channel,recording log levels to provide additional infomation in
> the mythbackend logfile, and use the channel editor to ensure your
> channels have the correct freqids (the values passed to the channel
> change scripts).
>
> --
> Nick
>
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I'm pretty sure all that's okay, becuase I *can* manually tune to the
channel in liveTV.  If the freqid was different, I wouldn't be able to do
that, correct?
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