[mythtv-users] Can I pass parameters to my channel changing script?

[Jan Ceuleers]

On 29/04/12 22:12, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 19:05, Patrick Oglesby<octoberblu3 at gmail.com>  wrote:
> ....
> You have to do locking, otherwise you can have a race condition.
>
> My recollection is that at least two of the scripts on the wiki
> support locking to avoid this particular issue.  The one I
> use (full disclosure, I wrote it, so it is clearly biased to
> what *I* needed) is called LircChannelChanger.  There are
> others, and the issue has been discussed on this list
> previously (although I do not know if those scripts were
> added to the wiki).

Thanks Gary. I do indeed plan to use your script as the basis for mine.

I'll have to do some hacking though, because I also want to save some 
power by powering the STBs down when not in use, so I'll have to power 
them up from the channel changing script as well.

Mike, happy to hear that the channel changing script is a property of 
the tuner rather than of the video source. When I'm done I'll go and 
make this clear on the wiki though, because it says in several places 
that it's in the video sources.

Cheers, Jan