[mythtv-users] external channel changing script lag problems

[Joe Auty]

Thanks!

Clever solution... seems to work just fine for me! I'm not much of a
shell scripter so I wasn't sure about how to have a shell script accept
a command line variable like this :))




Doug Young wrote:
> On 10/7/07, Joe Auty <joe at netmusician.org> wrote:
>> How would I do that? What exactly needs to be entered into the external
>> channel change database field to do this? I thought that basically
>> channels were piped to the value of this field (which is the path to the
>> script)? How can I include the channel variable within this field value?
> 
> How about this...use two scripts.  One for myth that takes an arg, and
> then calls the second in the background while returning control to
> myth, and the second to do the real work.
> 
> ie:
> Listing of changeexternchan.sh
> ------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> reallychangeexternchan.sh $1 &
> ------------------
> 
> where reallychangeexternchan.sh is your script from above.
> 
> I actually do something similar, except my "really change external
> channel" is a daemon that is always running, listening on a named
> pipe, so myth's channel changer simply writes the channel number to
> the named pipe and exits, letting the daemon handle the rest.


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