[mythtv-users] Specifying blaster script breaks TV viewing on PVR-150

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Tue Nov 8 14:30:09 UTC 2011


On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Bob Shanteau <rmshant at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/7/2011 12:23 PM, Gavin Hurlbut wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Bob Shanteau<rmshant at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> I don't see a procedure to return an exit code. I also checked several other scripts online and don't see that they return an exit code either.
>> Add "exit 0" at the end of the script to return an exit code of 0. Otherwise, it will return the exit code of the last program run in the script.
>
> I edited changechannel.sh as follows:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> exit 0
>
> No luck. I still get a black screen when trying to view TV from the
> settop box.
>
> Is there a way that I can check that I can make sure MythTV 0.24.1 is
> handling the script specified in the "External change channel command"
> field properly? (Perhaps by having it do the equivalent of printing
> "hello world"?)

Try:

#!/bin/bash
echo `date` "channel change called with $*" >> /tmp/channel_change.log
exit 0

Then look in /tmp/channel_change.log for info about when and with what
arguments the script is being called.

Eric


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