[mythtv-users] Re: changechannel support for DirecTV tuner

[Donavan Stanley]

On 7/19/05, Felix <mythtv at ymhee-bcex.net> wrote:
> I got the serial cable, got the script, got some additional perl library
> (Time::HiRes) and everything is working fine... almost ;-/
> the script directv.pl works great when I run it as root; however, as
> regular user, I was getting "Could not open /dev/ttyS0: Permission
> denied". So, I set up sudo for directv.pl; and now it works from command
> line. However, in MythTV it still doesn't change channels...

You knowm you could have just changed the permissions on /dev/ttyS0...