[mythtv-users] loss of function

[Daryl McDonald]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hoi Daryl,
>>
>> Monday, October 13, 2014, 6:27:28 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> > Greetings Mythizens, I've recently lost function of one of my
>> > digital cards and my only analog card. I was allowing an update,
>> > through update manager, that involved updates to the BE close to 6pm
>> > when recordings were scheduled to start and or stop, I usually try
>> > to time this when not recording because normally a stop and restart
>> > of the BE brought on by the update drops a minute or two of the
>> > recording/s. However eager to get the new SSD installed, I went
>> > ahead anyway. Afterwards one digital card went off line, upcoming
>> > recordings were predominantly circled in red, so I installed the
>> > SSD, which had a two week or so old "rsync" of my OS, 14.04, with
>> > myth 0.27. Things seemed better, no red circles, but I am having some
>> problems.
>> >
>> > 1, I think the  PC800i card is borked as BE set wont detect it,
>> > causing red circles mentioned earlier. ( rebooting an earlier kernel
>> > did recognize the card on two occasions but not the third, so I think
>> it's dead)
>>
>> > 2, My analog card "pvr150" is detected, but something is borked in
>> > the channel changing mechanisms. I've revisited the "joy and pain"
>> > thread where I received great assistance getting it working last year,
>> but this is different:
>>
>> > daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo /usr/local/bin/change-channel.sh 21
>> > [sudo] password for daryl:
>> > sudo: /usr/local/bin/change-channel.sh: command not found
>> > daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/bin/irsend SEND_ONCE DCT700 POWER
>> > irsend: could not connect to socket
>> > irsend: No such file or directory
>> > daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
>>
>> > last year these commands worked, now I get no signal lock in FE
>> > live TV on the analog channels, (functional on the remaining digital
>> card)
>>
>> > Any assistance will be greatly appreciated    Daryl
>>
>> To me two things seem apparent:
>> - /usr/local/bin/change-channel.sh doesn't exist anymore
>> - Your ir device is not installed (no socket)
>> So I suggest reinstalling and reconfiguring of the lirc part.
>> Since lirc uses kernel drivers it has to be compiled/configured for
>> the kernel you use. Probably loading lirc-serial will give an error.
>> Try modprobe lirc-serial.
>>
>> Tot mails,
>>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>>
>> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
>> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
>> Het eeuwige dilemma
>> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>>
>> De lerende Mens
>>
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>
> Hoi Hika, I did the modprobe and now the power toggles on and off, but:
>
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ irsend -d /var/run/lirc/lircdSerial SEND_ONCE
> DCT700 POWER
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo /usr/local/bin/change-channel.sh 21
> [sudo] password for daryl:
> sudo: /usr/local/bin/change-channel.sh: command not found
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
>
> the second command is not working, the script is there:
>

 daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -al /usr/local/bin/change-channel.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 838 Aug 25 10:27 /usr/local/bin/change-channel.sh
daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$

does it need to "chmod +x" ?
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