[mythtv] I finally have DirecTV working...but I still have a few questions.

[Bertus]

> What exactly do you mean by the bars thing? If you mean the menu bars, one
> way you can change that is by setting the bars to auto-hide after X
> seconds.. I do this, and it works relatively well..

Do you use Gnome, or KDE ?(I don't see that Gnome 2 has autohide for the
main bar.) I haven't tried kde and autohide. I might.

> As for the second issue that you raised, you can set it such that there is
> a small if statement in your program that does your channel changing.. and
> basically the if statement would run a little like this:
>
> if the channel is set to <15 (or whatever your CATV channel limit is),
then
> also send out the command to turn off the TV.. and you could also have it
> say that if the channel is set to >15 (or >100 to allow room for
> expansion), turn on the receiver.. The following should happen:
>

I tried your idea but it only works with Composite. When I'm using the tuner
it doesn't seam to be  calling the perl script.

Thanks though at least I can schedule a recording now in the Tunner and then
in the composite, leave the sat box off, record the first show right and
when it goes to the second it turns the sat box on, recording the second
also. But I'm afraid that for now I will not be able to do the second.

> I know this is a hack easily resolved by myth sending out other commands,
> but still, it will work and the program may be fun to make : )

As for the extra command I think It would be a bit of extra flexibility. Not
only for us but for the Lirc people. It would allow you to turn on/off
multiple boxes.

Again:  Thanks! You are the man!