[mythtv-users] channel changes via script suddenly stopped working--diagnose help

Larry Roberts mythtv at american-hero.com
Sun Apr 14 00:55:28 UTC 2013


I have renamed irsend to irsend1 and then changed the script to reflect 
that as well.  In the logs it shows the same irsend1 being executed.
>
> This is just soooooo odd.  I tried going from a perl script to a basic 
> bash script and it still had problems.  as soon as I saw that the 
> problem followed it I went back to my original script to eliminate any 
> variables.
>
>
So I did a full upgrade to the latest and greatest of packages,but no 
success.  I then decided I needed to see more of what the script was 
doing so I added a 3 second pause at the very beginning of the script.  
BLAM its working again.
I did 5 test recordings from mythweb and all picked the right channel.  
I dont know if its a long term fix, or for that matter why a 3 second 
pause at the beginning would make a difference but it seems too!

I was able to see the channel change taking place during the video and 
it was sending a single character each time.  Again I dont know if the 3 
second pause really made a difference or if I just managed to scare a 
gremlin out of the sytem but I'm not going to remove the pause to find out !

Everyone please cross your fingers and toes!   Thanks for the help in 
troubleshooting this as well.  I learned a bunch about linux in the 
process which makes it worth it!


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