[mythtv-users] Is anybody able to change channels on a 4250HDC STB via firewire?

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at gmail.com
Tue May 12 02:05:26 UTC 2009


On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Christian Szpilfogel <
> chrisznews4 at rogers.com> wrote:
>
>> Matt Emmott wrote:
>>
>>> I've got Mythbuntu 8.10 running with 0.22-trunk and have set up a slave
>>> BE with an HD-PVR. I have succesfully been able to capture video from my
>>> SA4250HDC STB and would like to use one of the firewire contrib scripts to
>>> change the channel. However, none of the scripts work. When I attempt to use
>>> the SA3250 script, I get the message "Ignoring SA 4250HDC on node 1 -- sorry
>>> not supported yet Could not find SA3250HD or SA4200HD on the IEEE 1394 bus."
>>>
>>> Has anybody found a way to change the channel on this STB? I'm open to
>>> any option. Thanks in advance.
>>>
>> Perhaps the following will help you...
>>
>> http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2009-May/255029.html
>>
>> Changes 3250HD/4250HD channels and ensures all is powered on before
>> doing so.
>>
>> The current 3250 in contribs is broken.
>>
>> Christian
>>
>>
> Thanks for all the help, it looks like majoridiot is the go-to guy for
> channel changing on this box. I downloaded and compiled his script, however
> I'm still running into the same issue as stated above - it shows 2 devices
> on my firewire bus and I don't know which is the STB:
>
> /sa4250_ch -v
> node 0: vendor_id = 0x00001106 model_id = 0x00000000
> node 1: vendor_id = 0x000022ce model_id = 0x000010cc
> Could not find SA42XXHD on the 1394 bus!
>


I'd try the second one, since the 1st has an model_id of 0



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Brad Fuller
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