[mythtv-users] MythTV and Satellite

[Mark J. Small]

> >   No risk of having the sat box
> > "miss" the ir commands from the ir blaster (which rarely happens, but
> > is
> > possible).
>
> With my Dish 311 receiver it happens enough to annoy the heck out of my
> wife. I've missed
> enough of my own shows that I'd love to find a better way too.

I used to get a lot of missed changes on my DCT2000, but I found that if I 
used nice to raise the priority of the channel change script, it happened 
MUCH less often.  On my Duron 800 backend, there occasionally be a five 
second pause between digits sent from my ir blaster.  In that 5 seconds, the 
DCT2000 would timeout and assume that the slowpoke on the remote must surely 
be done pressing buttons by now.

Have a look in your mythtv logs at one of the failed channel changes.

Mark