<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Stephen Worthington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:28:25 -0400, you wrote:<br>
<br>
>You have proved yourself a genius once again Mr. Worthington, with your<br>
>direction even a newbie like me can see that the script is working: (not to<br>
>mention the STB turned on)<br>
><br>
>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/local/bin/check_stb<br>
>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ grep mythstb-check /var/log/syslog<br>
>Aug 14 08:08:08 daryl-A780L3C mythstb-check: Wed Aug 14 08:08:08 EDT 2013<br>
>STB seems to be turned off, last count was 1728, attempting to Power it on<br>
>Aug 14 08:09:27 daryl-A780L3C mythstb-check: Wed Aug 14 08:09:27 EDT 2013<br>
>STB seems to be turned off, last count was 1728, attempting to Power it on<br>
>Aug 14 08:13:22 daryl-A780L3C mythstb-check: Wed Aug 14 08:13:22 EDT 2013<br>
>STB seems to be turned on, last count was 465<br>
>Aug 14 12:16:31 daryl-A780L3C mythstb-check: Wed Aug 14 12:16:31 EDT 2013<br>
>STB seems to be turned off, last count was 1728, attempting to Power it on<br>
>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$<br>
><br>
>Will Mythtv use this script every time I direct it to record from the STB,<br>
>just because it's in the directory beside the change_channel.sh ? Or do I<br>
>need to insert it into the change_channel.sh?<br>
<br>
</div>Nothing like that will happen automagically - you need to add a call<br>
to check_stb at the top of your channel change script. Just add these<br>
lines:<br>
<br>
# Ensure that the STB is turned on.<br>
/usr/local/bin/check_stb<br>
<div class="im"><br>
>Many thanks and much tribute, Daryl<br>
<br>
</div>And of course, thanks to curious onlooker for his rather ingenious<br>
script.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>amen! </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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