[mythtv-users] loss of function

[Daryl McDonald]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
wrote:

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

Yes, I +x'd it and now I have live TV functioning, Thanks Hika, the
modprobe was what I needed .
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