[mythtv-users] SA3250 with Svideo input group

Daniel Agar daniel at agar.ca
Sun Jul 27 02:14:12 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 20:11, Mike LaPlante <mike at dividia.net> wrote:
> I've setup my SA3250HD cable box in an input group with my PVR-250's
> Svideo input. Everything seems to be working except the channel changing.
>
> How do I tell Myth to use the firewire cable to change channels? I tried
> compiling the sa3250ch app in the contrib directory and setting that up
> as the external command but the app doesn't seem to work with my device.
> Sometimes it attempts to change the channel but gets the channel # all
> wrong, more often than not it doesn't change the channel at all.
>
> However, channel changing works perfectly if I setup the device by
> itself without the input group. Of course that option leaves out 80% of
> the channels because of the encryption. Obviously with Svideo the
> channels are HD any more, but at least I can tune them in.
>
> Mike

Have you tried the channel change script with the option
 -s : Send command as single digit (for SA4200 and some SA3250s and SA4200HD's)?


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