[mythtv-users] loss of function

[Daryl McDonald]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi Daryl,
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> Monday, October 13, 2014, 7:08:41 PM, you wrote:
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> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
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> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
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> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
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> > Hoi Daryl,
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> >  Monday, October 13, 2014, 6:27:28 PM, you wrote:
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>  >> 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.
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>  >> 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)
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>  >> 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:
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>  >> 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:~$
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>  >> 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)
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>  >> Any assistance will be greatly appreciated    Daryl
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> > 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.
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> >  Tot mails,
> >    Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
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> >  "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!"
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> >  De lerende Mens
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> > Hoi Hika, I did the modprobe and now the power toggles on and off, but:
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> > 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:~$
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> > the second command is not working, the script is there:
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> >  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:~$
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> > does it need to "chmod +x" ?
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> > Yes, I +x'd it and now I have live TV functioning, Thanks Hika, the
> modprobe was what I needed .
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> Great! I wish all things were that simple.
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> 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
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> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
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> "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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I already have rebooted and all remains well. I do have a lirc-serial.conf
file in /etc/modprobe.d, could this be helping?
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