[mythtv-users] Channel change misses 20% of the time, can I do USB to USB?
Paul
openletter at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 19 13:40:23 UTC 2008
I'm having problems with my updated hardware getting the channels changed correctly using my commandir. About 20% of the time the DirecTV HIRMD-E2 doesn't see one of the channel digits, so MythTV records one hour of channel 34 instead of 354, or channel 50 instead of 501, etc.
I set the delay time in the channel changing script to 1.2 seconds, but that doesn't seem to make any difference. The setup worked fine before I upgraded from an old Athlon XP (32 bit) to a new AMD 64 2.2 GHz, with totally fresh install of Ubuntu 8.04.
So I'm thinking I can solve the problem by by replacing the HIRMD-E2 with an H20-600 and using the USB port. But the problem is that I need to use my one serial port for the UPS as I have frequent power outage issues where I live (12 power outages last January).
Is there a way to use LIRC by just going USB to USB instead of USB to serial?
Or is there something else I can do to fix the channel change problem?
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