[mythtv-users] UK Commercial Detection (Clusters)

[Roger Siddons]

On Wed, 01 May 2013 12:32:18 +0100, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com>  
wrote:

>
> I'm now having problems specifying the tuning parameters on the
> command line. If I specify --preset as per the wiki I get an error:
>
> $ silence.py --chanid 2315 --starttime 20130409222800 --loglevel debug
> --preset "-80,,3,,180"
> usage: silence.py [-h] [--preset PRESET] [--presetfile PRESETFILE]
>                   [--chanid CHANID] [--starttime STARTTIME] [--quiet]
>                   [--nodblog] [--loglevel LOGLEVEL] [--verbose VERBOSE]
>                   [--logfile LOGFILE] [--logpath LOGPATH] [--syslog  
> SYSLOG]
>                   [jobid]
> silence.py: error: argument --preset: expected one argument
>
>
> The only way I can get it to run is if I have only one value in the
> preset string, eg:
>
> $ silence.py --chanid 2315 --starttime 20130409222800 --loglevel debug
> --preset "-80"
>
> Am I doing someing wrong?

Nope. That's another case of my sloppiness. Looks like the shell is  
intercepting the commas
Use either --preset="-80,,3,,180" or "--preset  -80,,3,,180"

I habitually use '=' myself, but thought the wiki looked more readable  
without them. It doesn't matter with most params...