[mythtv-users] Firewire 6200ch can't set port

[DryHeat122 .]

On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 11:26 AM DryHeat122 . <dryheat122 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another guy, Bob, send me his, but it wouldn't hurt to have yours to
> compare.
>
> On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 8:04 AM Greg <gregl at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
>
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>> On 5/4/19 8:14 PM, DryHeat122 . wrote:
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>> On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 12:35 PM DryHeat122 . <dryheat122 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> I have gotten 6200ch compiled and am trying to control my Cisco 4742HDC
>>> with it.  When I try 6200ch -q I get an error:  Couldn't set port, invalid
>>> argument.  When I run plugreport, it returns nothing, yet the STB is
>>> connected to the MythTV machine.  Any advice how to troubleshoot this?
>>>
>>
>> wait, I wasn't running plugreport as sudo.  When I did I got this:
>>
>> Host Adapter 0
>> ==============
>>
>> Node 0 GUID 0x00e6bc100000241d
>> ------------------------------
>> libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
>> libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
>>
>> Don't know if the errors are significant.  Tried running 6200ch with the
>> -g argument and the guid above, but got the same error; however the example
>> channel change scripts at the bottom of the wiki page
>> <https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/6200ch>  don't seem to be in octal so don't
>> know if this was right or not.
>>
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>> I get those errors also and they have never caused any problems...
>>
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>> Here is how I run mine.. I place 6200ch in usr/bin/
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>> My command line is /usr/bin/ 6200ch  -g 0xb81619fffe2805bd 13
>>
>> g is your guid ,13 can be any valid channel number...
>>
>> The one thing that gave me a fit when I first ran firewire was the vendor
>> numbers.. Did you compile in the correct vendor numbers? If you didn't i
>> can email mine to you at your gmail account.....
>>
>>
Well, no need to send your numbers.  I managed to get into the diagnostic
menu on the box and got the vendor and model numbers.  The vendor number
was different from what I had.  I changed it and recompiled, but sadly I am
still getting the error.
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