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

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Mar 20 14:05:33 UTC 2006


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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