[mythtv-users] External Channel Change with Cable Box

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Sun Mar 4 23:22:17 UTC 2007


On Mar 4, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Jean-Marc Melchior wrote:

> Hello,
> I am trying to get my Mythtv Box to control my cable box, I
> researched a bit and found the preset channel problem, but couldn't
> find a solution.
> My Blaster Script works perfect through command line and also when I
> set it in Myth-setup, however it doesn't work when I put 3 as the
> preset channel.
>
> So all I want is that Myth keeps /dev/video0 tuned to channel 3 while
> just changing the channel through the external script.
> When I put 3 as the preset number it makes my frontend return to the
> Menu with the error Mythsocket: Error Socket went unconnected.

What does your backend log say when you first start mythbackend? It  
should try to tune to channel 3 at that point. A while ago there was  
a bug that it wouldn't tune to the preset channel so I added a manual  
ivtv command in my startup script to tune to channel 3 and I never  
thought about it again.



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