[mythtv-users] change channel script limit at 2 digits (DTA100)

[Scott]

On 3/31/2010 1:10 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 03/31/2010 09:54 AM, Scott wrote:
>> Does anyone have a modified script that limits or only uses the 2 
>> least significant digits that are sent from mythbackend to the change 
>> channel script?
>>
>> The background is that I have ive seen that the backend is reqesting 
>> channel numbers like 1043, when i only need to send 43 to the ir 
>> blaster. My script works when only using 2 digits, but when i setup 
>> the backend to use it and switch to that input nothing happens and 
>> livetv fails.
>> I think the DTA goes nuts seeing a 4 digit channel, rather than a 
>> 0-99 channel.
>> I based the script off the one in the mythtv contrib folder.
>
> As Jeff said, you need to edit your channels in mythtv-setup, MythWeb, 
> or mythfrontend channel editor and put the right channel number into 
> the frequency ID.
>
> Currently your MythTV configuration is broken--not your channel change 
> script.
>
> Mike
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Seems like a very painful way to fix the problem, like I said before I 
dont really want to hand modify all channels below 99, and technically I 
could be changing channels above 99. I still think that filtering out 
the extra digits in the script would be quicker.