[mythtv-users] HDPVR setup problems

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Karl,

Monday, June 1, 2015, 7:17:38 AM, you wrote:

> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Fred Hamilton <fred at yonkitime.com> wrote:

>> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Jack McGee <jack at greendesk.net> wrote:
>>
>>> First, it seems even if MythTV cannot change channels, I should at least
>>> be able to record whatever the cable box is tuned to, correct?
>>>
>>
>> I had a similar problem a few weeks ago.  IIRC, I was trying to record
>> something on Myth using my HD-PVR, and I had left the channel change
>> command blank in mythtv-setup.
>>
>> That didn't work.  If MythTV can't execute  channel change command, it
>> doesn't try to record.  At least that's how I remember it.  Once I
>> installed 6200ch (I change channels via firewire), it worked fine.
>>
>> But, I can cat /dev/video0 > test.ts and get a file I can playback.
>>>
>>
>> That's what I saw as well.
>>
>> Why can't Myth record a file and where else should I look for clues?
>>>
>>
>> Work on getting the channel change command working.  You can debug it
>> easily by connecting your TV directly to your cablebox and executing the
>> channel change command outside of mythtv.  Once that's working reliably,
>> add it to MythTV setup and see if you can record normally again.
>>
>> Yes, I encountered that a few months ago when a package update broke my
> channel change scripts. Unfortunately the default verbosity log did not
> show the channel change failure (I submitted a patch to change that but it
> might not show up until 0.28). If you just want to do a quick test without
> spending a lot of time getting your channel change script working, you
> could temporarily use '/bin/true' as your channel change command. FYI, I
> seem to recall that a lot of users choose not to use the built-in IR
> blaster with the 1212 because of reliability issues. As always, though,
> YMMV.

> Karl

So if this is so and you want to test if recording works. Put in a
dummy channel change command like `sleep 1`. It will return 0, so
mythtv will think succes!

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