[mythtv-users] Firewire 6200ch can't set port

[DryHeat122 .]

On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 12:36 PM DryHeat122 . <dryheat122 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 11:26 AM DryHeat122 . <dryheat122 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Another guy, Bob, send me his, but it wouldn't hurt to have yours to
>> compare.
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>> On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 8:04 AM Greg <gregl at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
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>>> On 5/4/19 8:14 PM, DryHeat122 . wrote:
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>>> On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 12:35 PM DryHeat122 . <dryheat122 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> I have gotten 6200ch compiled and am trying to control my Cisco 4742HDC
>>>> with it.  When I try 6200ch -q I get an error:  Couldn't set port, invalid
>>>> argument.  When I run plugreport, it returns nothing, yet the STB is
>>>> connected to the MythTV machine.  Any advice how to troubleshoot this?
>>>>
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>>> wait, I wasn't running plugreport as sudo.  When I did I got this:
>>>
>>> Host Adapter 0
>>> ==============
>>>
>>> Node 0 GUID 0x00e6bc100000241d
>>> ------------------------------
>>> libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
>>> libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
>>>
>>> Don't know if the errors are significant.  Tried running 6200ch with the
>>> -g argument and the guid above, but got the same error; however the example
>>> channel change scripts at the bottom of the wiki page
>>> <https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/6200ch>  don't seem to be in octal so
>>> don't know if this was right or not.
>>>
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>>> I get those errors also and they have never caused any problems...
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>>> Here is how I run mine.. I place 6200ch in usr/bin/
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>>> My command line is /usr/bin/ 6200ch  -g 0xb81619fffe2805bd 13
>>>
>>> g is your guid ,13 can be any valid channel number...
>>>
>>> The one thing that gave me a fit when I first ran firewire was the
>>> vendor numbers.. Did you compile in the correct vendor numbers? If you
>>> didn't i can email mine to you at your gmail account.....
>>>
>>>
> Well, no need to send your numbers.  I managed to get into the diagnostic
> menu on the box and got the vendor and model numbers.  The vendor number
> was different from what I had.  I changed it and recompiled, but sadly I am
> still getting the error.
>

I have been doing research on this, and found that people had some problems
with this changer because of permissions.  So I ran it as sudo and the
"can't set port" error went away.  Now it is saying:

Could not find Motorola DCT-6200 on the 1394 bus.
starting with node: 0
node 0: vendor_id = 0x00001f11 model_id = 0x00023901

There are a few odd things about this.  First, I got the vendor ids from
the STB's diagnostics screen, and they are not the same as these.  Second
there is nothing else on firewire on this machine so I don't know what else
these vendor/model ids could be.   Third, I also found an old thread from
2015 http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2015-October/382299.html
where the guy was getting the exact same message (except for node 1).  This
makes me wonder if this is some kind of default vendor/model or something.
Or should I recompile with the vendor/model 6200ch is giving me?
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