[mythtv-users] Directv.pl follow up

[Brian Walter]

 >From: "Jeff Simpson" <jeffsimpson[at]alum.wpi.edu>
 >To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users[at]mythtv.org>, "Brian 
Wallen"
 ><brian_wallen[at]hotmail.com>
 >Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Directv.pl script problem
 >Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 16:26:45 -0400
 >
 >On 5/17/07, Brian Wallen <brian_wallen[at]hotmail.com> wrote:
 >>I'm using version 1.7 of the directv.pl script to control my D11 STB. I
 >>found the script on google, and almost everything works perfectly. The
 >>only
 >>thing that doesn't is the hide command that should hide the D11's OSD.
 >>Every time the channel is changed, I can see the D11's OSD as well as
 >>myth's. I ran 'directv.pl hide', but it didn't help. Has anyone else
 >>experienced this?
 >
 >Try the updated versions of the script. They are located at:
 >
 >http://www.mit.edu/~je18337/directv/directv2.pl 
<http://www.mit.edu/%7Eje18337/directv/directv2.pl>
 >http://www.mit.edu/~je18337/directv/directv3.pl 
<http://www.mit.edu/%7Eje18337/directv/directv3.pl>
 >
 >I'll admit I haven't done as good a job at version control as I should
 >have. the one that ends in v3 is the one I currently have in my own
 >/usr/local/bin directory. It has the "osd_on" and "osd_off" commands,
 >which work. Do not use the setup_channel command, just put a channel
 >number on the command line.
 >
 >Try that out and let me know if it works.
 >
 >- Jeff Simpson


Thanks for the script, but it didn't work either.

Last night, I discovered that for some reason, my D11 would give the 
directv.pl script grief when tunning to one channel.  The box would 
actually *tune* to the channel, but, the box apparently told the script 
that it timed out.  This was using setup_channel.

So I download the directv3.pl from above, and started playing around 
with it.  I finally solved the problem by using the channel only tunning 
- but then got the osd mentioned in this email originally

SOLUTION:  edit the script, and locate the following line:
my $chan_change_key_param

Insert after the above line:

$chan_change_key_param=0;

I believe that is what fixed it - though this was done *after* adding a 
few calls to 'exit'....so not sure of the interaction.