[mythtv-commits] Ticket #5215: sa4250_ch_guid : an improved SA4250 channel changer for multiple STBs

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#5215: sa4250_ch_guid : an improved SA4250 channel changer for multiple STBs
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 Reporter:  bcorsello at hotmail.com  |       Owner:  ijr       
     Type:  enhancement            |      Status:  new       
 Priority:  minor                  |   Milestone:  unknown   
Component:  mythtv                 |     Version:  0.21-fixes
 Severity:  medium                 |     Mlocked:  0         
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 My Myth setup includes two SA4250HD STBs, which I control using Firewire.
 I've been using MajorIdiot's sa4250_ch channel changing program, but found
 it didn't handle multiple STBs well, so I modified it a bit.

 My new setup has a shell wrapper, sa4250_ch_guid, and a modified version
 of Major's channel changer, sa4250_ch.

 Invoke sa4250_ch_guid with the GUID of the box you want to control and the
 channel as parameters. You don't need the whole GUID, just enough of it to
 be a unique search key (there is no checking of this so make sure you have
 it right).

 sa4250_ch_guid determines the node number of the STB with the given GUID
 and passes that as a parameter to sa4250_ch. This is necessary because
 node numbers often seem to change at unpredictable times.

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