[mythtv-users] External Channel Change Question? - WAS Re: CentOS and MythTV

Kenneth Hadley khadley at pacbell.net
Mon Feb 13 02:23:22 UTC 2006


Brian Wood wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2006, at 7:02 PM, Kenneth Hadley wrote:
>
>   
>> Appears I spoke too soon about have no further problems.
>>
>> I use a MyBlaster to control my external Samsung DirecTV receiver and
>> with my previous box this worked fine using the MyBlaster.pl script.
>>
>> This time...not working so well.
>>
>> I have the script located in /usr/local/bin/ and typed into the input
>> field of "mythtvsetup=>input connections=>/dev/video0/=>External  
>> channel
>> change command" the script path/filename (/usr/local/bin/MyBlaster.pl)
>> but when I record programs the channel never changes and when watching
>> the MyBlaster transmitter when the recording starts and it should be
>> blinking, it does not.
>>
>> Manually typing at the CLI
>> [mythtv at pvr01 ~]$ /usr/local/bin/MyBlaster.pl 298
>> Does change the channel.
>>
>> Anyone have any thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>     
>
> Probably the most common problem with scripts is that they have be  
> both readable and executable in order to work. Just a simple thing to  
> check.
>   
chmod +0777 /usr/local/bin/MyBlaster.pl
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/MyBlaster.pl

Where the permission changes I made previously to get where I am (stuck)
now.

-Kenneth


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