[mythtv-users] Joy and pain (Daryl McDonald)

Mark Perkins perkins1724 at hotmail.com
Sun Feb 16 21:53:37 UTC 2014



> On 17 Feb 2014, at 8:03 am, "Daryl McDonald" <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Try using the name 'DCT2000' as defined in
>>> '/usr/share/lirc/extras/transmitters/motorola/dctxxxx.conf'
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Tot mails,
>>>  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>>> 
>>> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
>>> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
>>> Het eeuwige dilemma
>>> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>> 
>> efore I try that let me report that I am communicating with the stb
>> via the command line, as yet not the "check_stb" script. thgis
>> happened as a result of changing the /etc/lirc/lircd.conf file. I
>> commented out the original ending line and added a new one, like so:
>> 
>> #include "/usr/share/lirc/extras/transmitters/motorola/dctxxxx.conf"
>> include "/etc/lirc/DCT700.conf"
>>> 
>>> Does this help determine the next step?     Daryl
> 
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/local/bin/check_stb
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/bin/irsend SEND_ONCE DCT700 POWER
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/bin/irsend SEND_ONCE DCT700 POWER
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/bin/irsend SEND_ONCE DCT700 POWER
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/local/bin/check_stb
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/local/bin/change-channel.sh
> irsend: not enough arguments
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
> 
> The first command returned no complaints, but did not turn on the stb.
> The second, third, and fourth command did cycle the stb on and off.
> The fifth, again no change.
> The sixth received this complaint because no channel info was given
> (usually by mythtv)       Daryl
> _______________________________________________
Daryl, I think you could just grab a channel number and put it at the end of the channel change command. When I looked briefly at the script it seemed somewhat forgiving to format so the (valid) number by itself should be sufficient.


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