<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;" bgcolor="#f7f7f7" text="#818181" link="#3399ff" vlink="#2c2c2c"><div>On Sun, 2018-11-18 at 09:52 -0500, Greg wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>Hi,</pre><pre><br></pre><pre> I have been running Mythtv for around 15 years. I can usually figure </pre><pre>things out on my own,but channel changing has me baffled. I want to use </pre><pre>firewire for changing channels.. I have all the right files installed </pre><pre>and I can change channels using a terminal out side of Mythtv.. I know </pre><pre>its working,by using cat to start a stream from my hdpvr 1212,then open </pre><pre>another terminal and send a channel change 6200ch -g </pre><pre>0xb81619fffe2805bd -4 13. The stb changes the channel, and the stream </pre><pre>changes to channel 13. I have tried every command line I have found on </pre><pre>the net and no joy..</pre><pre><br></pre><pre> I don't see anything useful in the logs..</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Arris DCX3200-M Stb</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>plugreport output:</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>6200ch -v -v 750</pre><pre>starting with node: 1</pre><pre>node 1: vendor_id = 0x00b81619 model_id = 0x00002322</pre><pre>AV/C Command: Op=0x00487C0D</pre><pre>AV/C Command: 750 = Op1=0x00487C27 Op2=0x00487C25 Op3=0x00487C20</pre><pre>greg@TVserver:~$ plugreport</pre><pre>Host Adapter 0</pre><pre>==============</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Node 0 GUID 0x0000000000000000</pre><pre>------------------------------</pre><pre>libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR</pre><pre>libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Node 1 GUID 0xb81619fffe2805bd</pre><pre>------------------------------</pre><pre>oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63</pre><pre>oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0</pre><pre> channel=0, data_rate=2, overhead_id=0, payload=376</pre><pre>iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>If anyone has the same setup as I do could you lend a hand?</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Thanks,Greg</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>mythtv-users mailing list</pre><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org"><pre>mythtv-users@mythtv.org</pre></a><pre><br></pre><a href="http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users"><pre>http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</pre></a><pre><br></pre><a href="http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette"><pre>http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette</pre></a><pre><br></pre><pre>MythTV Forums: </pre><a href="https://forum.mythtv.org"><pre>https://forum.mythtv.org</pre></a></blockquote><pre><br></pre><pre>i have same box and firewire card. but i use both hdpvr and firewire to record depending on the channel (i am with specturm</pre><pre>- time warner in cal/usa). you did not say above whether you made a channel change script for the hdpvr. maybe that's whats missing.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>mine looks like this:</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>#!/bin/bash</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>b=999</pre><pre>if [ -f /home/mythtv/fire ]</pre><pre> then</pre><pre> rm /home/mythtv/fire</pre><pre>fi</pre><pre>if [ -f /home/mythtv/pvr ]</pre><pre> then</pre><pre> rm /home/mythtv/pvr</pre><pre>fi</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>touch /home/mythtv/pvr</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>if [ "$1" -gt "$b" ]</pre><pre>then</pre><pre> 6200ch -g 0x6455b1fffe293e3b -4 "$1"</pre><pre>else</pre><pre> 6200ch -g 0x6455b1fffe293e3b "$1"</pre><pre>fi</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>you would not need the top part, i am just placing an empty file to know which was last tuned as i have a 'priming' </pre><pre>script that sets the box up for firewire recording.and of course every guid is unique to box.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>script name goes into setup under input connections and it must have correct privleges for backend to run it.</pre></body></html>