[mythtv-users] Live tv does not work with channel changer, times out

[Nick Morrott]

On 29/07/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 07/28/2007 07:53 PM, James Armstrong wrote:
> > Is there a setting for the amount of time the frontend waits for the backend
> > when starting live tv? I have a dishnetwork channel changing script and the
> > frontend times out before the backend finishes changing channels and starts
> > the recording ring buffer. I can see it in the backend changing the channels
> > and the frontend stops, then the backend complains about the socket handle
> > being invalid because the frontend had exited live tv mode. It works if I
> > start a recording on the dish input then do live tv because it forces it to
> > use the OTA hd inputs that don't have the channel changing script.
>
> You can write your channel change script to call another script and then
> exit (with a 0 status).  The second script does the actual channel
> change (i.e. is your current script) and the only purpose of the first
> script is to pass on the message and exit quickly.

And when you call the other script, remember to background it (bg/&)
otherwise MythTV will still be left waiting. I used this method to
correct the tinny audio method on my PVR-150 card on every channel
change and it worked great.


-- 
Nick

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