[mythtv-users] red_eye remote woes

[Ant Daniel]

On 11/15/05, lischka <lischka at nildram.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I am being seriously dumb here but please someone just put me out of my
> misery.
>
> I have a working Mythtv setup on a Pundit-R (FC3 using Jarod's guide
> PVR-350
> connected to SKY Grundig digibox)
>
> I bought a red_eye remote to allow channel changing on the SKy digibox and
> donwloaded the linux driver, but this has never worked.
>
> I run the command
> [mythtv at Showcase Softlib]$ ./red_eye /dev/ttyS0 1004 2
> Opening port for /dev/ttyS0 and setting RTS
> RTS bit set ok
> Writing data ("1004") now
> write() of bytes failed!
> Data Written....
> Sleeping for 2 seconds ....
> .. Start close... Finished
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
>
> oh and ttyS1 gives the same.
>
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Are you running as root or as user, I used to have a similar problem when I
ran as a user as it couldn't get access to ttyS0. Try as root, if you've not
done so already.
 I must have changed my permissions (or granted the program SUID) along the
way, but don't remember what I did.
 Ant
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