[mythtv-users] Digital Cable Box, MythTV, and Serial CablesOhMy!
Matt Collins
matt at clues.com
Fri Dec 12 23:08:37 EST 2003
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:05:40PM -0600, Warren Pattison wrote:
> Donald,
>
> I went back and wiped the mythdatabase, along with the settings on the card. I had duplicate entries in the database, and so I decided to "start clean". I also went through the test with test_ioctl, and sure enough it is Composite4. Once myth was set to that - it worked! Thank you for your help on that. I guess I just had too many iterations of trying to config everything.
>
> Now my last hurdle, I think, is getting the channel to change. I have this defined in the Video Input section of mythtvsetup - [/usr/local/bin/channel $1 &]. The setup displays a blurb about Myth using the first argument for the channel number, so I assume I should add the '$1'. And then set the program to run in the background with the '&'.
>
> The 'channel' binary has mythtv:mythtv as owner, and I chmod-666 the /dev/ttyS0 to allow the user 'myth' to execute it - so I believe I'm good there with permissions. But when I'm in MythTV, I still cannot use the remote control to change the channels. The remote I'm using is the gray one that came with the Hauppauge PVR-250 card. I either hit Channel Up or Down, or manually type in the channel. I get a brief display of the time on the screen, then that fades away with no channel changing.
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> Thoughts? I'm not 100% if my command line that I defined in the mythtvsetup is correct.
Prior to Anduins patch for tinny audio I was working around it with a perl script
to change channels + set the ioctls to avoid it. I am almost 100% certain I
simply had the binary name - i.e. the doc means myth will supply the channel
as the first argument on the command line.
Try just putting /usr/local/bin/channel in, with nothing else.
Matt
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