[mythtv] problem setting ivtv tuner channel in 0.19 w/ ivtv 0.4.x?

[Kenneth Padgett]

Just trying to follow up... Anyone know if this external channel
change/tuner not being set to initial channel issue has been looked
at, or a ticket created?

-Kenneth

On 3/20/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 03/20/2006 08:31 AM, Bruce Taber wrote:
> > This is sort of what I have done to get the external channel change
> > command working again. The other piece is to temporarily disable the
> > external command by adding set externalcommand = '' (that is two single
> > quotes) to the update mysql command above. Tune to the channel and then
> > re-enable the externalcommand by updating the entry with the appropriate
> > external command. This is a one-off procedure after restarting ivtv (or
> > a reboot, of course). After that the tuner and STB will work correctly
> > until the next time the ivtv module is restarted.
>
> OK, good to know.  It sounds like Myth is still able to tune the channel
> without problems when configured to use the tuner, but that it doesn't
> use the tunechan.
>
> For now, you might just want to put the ivtvctl line to tune to channel
> 3 in your external channel change script (should fix the problem for you
> and even work without "pre-configuring" after a reboot).  I'll see if I
> can get some time to look at it this week.
>
> Mike
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