[mythtv-users] Re: changechannel support for DirecTV tuner

[David Morris]

Why not avoid sudo altogether and just grant world read/write 
permissions to the port?  It would simplify things, and shouldn't really 
be a security concern on a home Linux box, especially a dedicated Myth 
box that only has a DirecTV receiver attached.

So just "chmod a+rw /dev/ttyS0" drop the sudo and see if it works then.  
If you're really paranoid about security you could set the group on 
/dev/ttyS0 to mythtv or whatever your myth login group is and likewise 
set the same group on the directv.pl script.  Then you can just allow 
group read/write on the device.

David

Felix wrote:

> I got the serial cable, got the script, got some additional perl 
> library (Time::HiRes) and everything is working fine... almost ;-/
> the script directv.pl works great when I run it as root; however, as 
> regular user, I was getting "Could not open /dev/ttyS0: Permission 
> denied". So, I set up sudo for directv.pl; and now it works from 
> command line. However, in MythTV it still doesn't change channels...
>
> I tried the following line in mythtvsetup (Input connections - 
> External channel change command):
> sudo directv.pl box_type D10-100 setup_channel
> (with and without sudo) but the channels don't change...
>
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks
> Felix
>
> djg at pdp8.net wrote:
>
>>> Is there a changechannel for DirecTV tuner anywhere?
>>>   
>>
>> http://www.pdp8.net/directv/directv.shtml
>>  
>>
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