[mythtv-users] 2 DirecTV recievers: Can change channel on one but not other.

maillist at citadelsystems.net maillist at citadelsystems.net
Wed Sep 26 22:26:50 UTC 2007


Permissions are correct and the absolute path is used for the script.

Right now I am thinking that is a bug in Mythbackend.

KM

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 16:33 -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Sep 25, 2007, at 4:20 PM, maillist at citadelsystems.net wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > For the past year I have been trying to figure this one out. I have  
> > two
> > DirecTV receivers hooked up to MythTV. One receiver is on the serial
> > port and the other a USB serial port.  I have two copies of the
> > d10control.pl script. One changes the channels on the serial port and
> > the other script does the USB serial port. I have entered in the  
> > correct
> > path and script name into mythtv-setup. I have also verified that the
> > scripts work on the command line.
> >
> > On to my issue: MythTV will not change the channel on the 2nd receiver
> > (USB serial).
> >
> > Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > KM
> 
> Sounds like a permissions issue. Make sure they work from the command  
> line as the same user that runs mythbackend. Also, make sure you're  
> using absolute paths to the channel change script as I was bitten by  
> that once when I was running as separate users, but it wasn't in the  
> path of one of my users but was in the other.
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