[mythtv-users] loss of function

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 17:22:42 UTC 2014


Hoi Daryl,

Monday, October 13, 2014, 7:08:41 PM, you wrote:





> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:





> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:





> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hoi Daryl,
>  

>  Monday, October 13, 2014, 6:27:28 PM, you wrote:
>  
 >> Greetings Mythizens, I've recently lost function of one of my
 >> digital cards and my only analog card. I was allowing an update,
 >> through update manager, that involved updates to the BE close to 6pm
 >> when recordings were scheduled to start and or stop, I usually try
 >> to time this when not recording because normally a stop and restart
 >> of the BE brought on by the update drops a minute or two of the
 >> recording/s. However eager to get the new SSD installed, I went
 >> ahead anyway. Afterwards one digital card went off line, upcoming
 >> recordings were predominantly circled in red, so I installed the
 >> SSD, which had a two week or so old "rsync" of my OS, 14.04, with
 >> myth 0.27. Things seemed better, no red circles, but I am having some problems.
 >>  
 >> 1, I think the  PC800i card is borked as BE set wont detect it,
 >> causing red circles mentioned earlier. ( rebooting an earlier kernel
 >> did recognize the card on two occasions but not the third, so I think it's dead)
>  
 >> 2, My analog card "pvr150" is detected, but something is borked in
 >> the channel changing mechanisms. I've revisited the "joy and pain"
 >> thread where I received great assistance getting it working last year, but this is different:
>  
 >> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo /usr/local/bin/change-channel.sh 21
 >> [sudo] password for daryl: 
 >> sudo: /usr/local/bin/change-channel.sh: command not found
 >> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/bin/irsend SEND_ONCE DCT700 POWER
 >> irsend: could not connect to socket
 >> irsend: No such file or directory
 >> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ 
>  
 >> last year these commands worked, now I get no signal lock in FE
 >> live TV on the analog channels, (functional on the remaining digital card)
>  
 >> Any assistance will be greatly appreciated    Daryl
>  
>  

> To me two things seem apparent:
>  - /usr/local/bin/change-channel.sh doesn't exist anymore
>  - Your ir device is not installed (no socket)
>  So I suggest reinstalling and reconfiguring of the lirc part.
>  Since lirc uses kernel drivers it has to be compiled/configured for
>  the kernel you use. Probably loading lirc-serial will give an error.
>  Try modprobe lirc-serial.
>  
>  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!"
>  
>  De lerende Mens
>  

> Hoi Hika, I did the modprobe and now the power toggles on and off, but:

> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ irsend -d /var/run/lirc/lircdSerial SEND_ONCE DCT700 POWER
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo /usr/local/bin/change-channel.sh 21
> [sudo] password for daryl: 
> sudo: /usr/local/bin/change-channel.sh: command not found
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ 

> the second command is not working, the script is there:

>  daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -al /usr/local/bin/change-channel.sh
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 838 Aug 25 10:27 /usr/local/bin/change-channel.sh
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ 

> does it need to "chmod +x" ?

> Yes, I +x'd it and now I have live TV functioning, Thanks Hika, the modprobe was what I needed .

Great! I wish all things were that simple.

You might have to add lirc-serial to the list of kernel modules to
load or else it won't load on a reboot. I don't know were exactly to
do that in Mythbuntu/Ubuntu. Possibly in /etc/modprobe.d

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!"

De lerende Mens



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