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

[Travis Kelley]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Christian Szpilfogel <
>> chrisznews4 at rogers.com> wrote:
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>>> Matt Emmott wrote:
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>>>> 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."
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>>>> Has anybody found a way to change the channel on this STB? I'm open to
>>>> any option. Thanks in advance.
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>>> Perhaps the following will help you...
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>>> http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2009-May/255029.html
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>>> Changes 3250HD/4250HD channels and ensures all is powered on before
>>> doing so.
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>>> The current 3250 in contribs is broken.
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>>> Christian
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>> 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:
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>> /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!
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> 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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> Just as a point of reference, I have a SA4250HDC running the old firewire
stack on Gentoo and I don't need any extra programs to change the channel.
I'm running .21 fixes compiled form source.  When I start mythbackend it
does give me an error, something to the effect of, no channel changers
exist.  But it works anyway.
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