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

Jim Paris jim at jtan.com
Mon Oct 20 00:44:52 EDT 2003


> I've got another suggestion also.  Since your code can apparently read
> the current channel number, it can check to see if the channel change
> was successful.  (I've gotten a few missed channel changes.)  It might
> be a good thing(tm) if it would do said check after changing, and if it
> hasn't changed to the requested channel (and the channel does exist)
> that it attempt the channel change again, but a little more slowly...

That's exactly what it does, except for the "a little more slowly"
part.  If it's not changing the channel properly, that means it missed
after 4 tries.  Try changing the timeouts with '-t 2' and see if it
gets any better; I'm curious to know if they're too short for others
(they work for me).

-jim


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