[mythtv-users] Updated dct-channel for controlling DCT-2000 via serial port

[Ian Forde]

On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 01:11, Jim Paris wrote:
> > Serial timeout
> > Didn't get expected status message
> > Initialization failed
> > 
> > I reset the box and tried again.  No joy.
> 
> Could you try increasing the timeout by specifying something like -t 5?
> If that doesn't work, try this patch:
> 
> --- channel.c	2003-10-17 01:12:55.000000000 -0400
> +++ foo.c	2003-10-17 04:07:17.000000000 -0400
> @@ -74,7 +74,6 @@
>  	   for it (and automatically acknowledge it) */
>  	if(serial_getpacket(&p,TIMEOUT_SHORT)<0) {
>  		verb("Didn't get expected status message\n");
> -		return -1;
>  	}
>  	return 0;
>  }

Strange.  Neither the -t option nor the patch helped things.  Funny
thing was that version 1.3 works just fine.  I didn't think anything
changed (other than pulling out the autoconf stuff...)

I'll try this out for a few days and see if it's better than the Python
script.  (Over time, I'm fast learning how to hate Python even more than
when I first encountered it...)

> If still no luck, could you send me the output from the Python
> channel-changing script?

And that would have required me digging back into the Python code (which
I really hate) and start on another cycle of trying to clean it up
again... ugh... ;)

I'll switch over to this instead for a few days and let you know if it's
noticeable faster/more reliable for me...

Thanks,
	-Ian

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