[mythtv-users] LIRC help needed with IguanaIR and PACE DC50X

[Brad Fuller]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 04:21,  <mythtv at derdev.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 21:18:35 -0700, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> A big thank you!
>>
>> I had to restart my BE and found that the iguana channels were set to
>> 0 instead of what I had set them at (4). Do they get reset?
>>
>> Anyway, I took your channel changing script (maybe you should put that
>> on the wiki) and found I needed to change the setting of where you set
>> the transmitter from 1 to 3
>>
>> irsend set_transmitters 3
>>
>> That was all I needed to do to change channels.
>>
>> ====
>> My next problem is the setting in myth setup. I have a PVR250 and
>> placed the channel changer script in the appropriate place, set it to
>> channel 3 and tested it with Live TV.  All I got was a blank screen.
>> (I have 3 other tuners that work fine and I switched to this one.)
>>
>> I see in the WIKI that Myth does not take channel number but freq ID.
>> Is that still the case (don't know if the wiki is up to date)
>> If that's the case, that's probably why there's a black screen.
>
> My experience is that a blank screen on WatchTV with this was because the
> channel change script wasn't found.

Hmmm... I did hook the TV up to check and the channel was still set ok.


> You need to check the backend log to verify.
>
> I believe the default folder is /usr/local/bin/ so make sure the script is
> there, is set to executable, owned by mythtv's user, etc.

right, those are the first things I checked. I used the full path in
mythtv-setup. I'm sure the BE wouldn't add the path again
/usr/local/bin/usr/local/bin
I'll check.

Thanks!