[mythtv-users] directv.pl channels below 100 won't display

Cole Brodine cbrodine at gmail.com
Mon May 15 11:10:32 EDT 2006


On 4/29/06, Cole Brodine <cbrodine at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I can get directv.pl to change channels on the command line, but it won't
> work within MythTV for channels below 100. The error message in my
> mythbackend.log file is:
>
> Starting up as the master server.
> Excessive channel change retries, commanded 77250 got 4828
> Excessive channel change retries, commanded 77250 got 4828
> Excessive channel change retries, commanded 77250 got 4828
> Excessive channel change retries, commanded 121250 got 7578
> Excessive channel change retries, commanded 121250 got 7578
> Excessive channel change retries, commanded 77250 got 4828
> Excessive channel change retries, commanded 77250 got 4828
>
> When I try to run it from the command line, it works flawlessly.  Both my
> mythtv user and the root user can run it.  I've already check permissions on
> /dev/ttyS0 and it's owned by my mythtv user and group users.
>
> crwxrwxrwx  1 mythtv users 4, 64 Apr 29 14:49 /dev/ttyS0
>
> When I used mythtv to change channels, channels 100 and up work fine.
> When I try to change to a channel below 100, I get another odd channel.
> If I try channel 5 for example, I get channel 4828.  The mythtv thinks it's
> on channel 5, but the directv displays channel 4828. I think that's where
> the "Excessive channel change retries, commanded 77250 got 4828" error is
> coming in.
>
> Anybody have any suggestions to fix this?  Anybody else encountering this
> problem?
>
> I'm running Gentoo Linux with the vanilla Kernel version 2.6.15.1.  Mythtv
> version 0.19_p9163-r1 emerged from portage.
>
> Thanks for any help you guys can provide.
>
> Cole
>

Anybody know anything about this?  It's driving me crazy to not be able to
record channels below 100...
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