[mythtv-users] Problem Faking Channel Change Command -- Fixed

[Philip Murnane]

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 09:49 -0700, Philip Murnane wrote:
> Hi Everyone:
> 
> Running Mythtv-0.20-fixes from around 2007-01-15 on Ubuntu 6.06 via
> WinTV PVR-250, and having a problem faking the external channel change
> command (mythtv-setup->Input connections->/dev/video0
> (S-Video->Cable-Box).
> 
> I have two video sources set up, Cable-Analog for channels 2-98, and
> cable-box for channels higher than 98.  Cable-Analog is connected to the
> tuner of the PVR-250 and Cable-Box is connected to the S-Video input.  I
> know I can't use them both at the same time, and when watching TV via
> mythfrontend, both work fine.
> 
> Scheduled recordings off Cable-Analog work fine, but in order to
> schedule recordings off the cable box while waiting for my IR blaster to
> arrive, I've put /bin/true in the External channel change command for
> the S-Video->Cable-Box input connection and am manually selecting the
> channel on the cable box.
> 
> When the time for recording starts, I get an "Error: Failed to set
> channel..."  Any thoughts?  /bin/true exists and is -rwxr-xr-x
> 
> 2007-01-24 09:36:20.354 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
> 2007-01-24 09:36:20.361 adding: cyclops as a client (events: 0)
> 2007-01-24 09:36:20.369 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
> 2007-01-24 09:36:20.376 adding: cyclops as a client (events: 1)
> 2007-01-24 09:40:01.581 TVRec(1): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
> 2007-01-24 09:40:01.601 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
> 2007-01-24 09:40:02.003 Channel::GetCurrentChannelNum(312): Failed to
> find Channel '312'
> 2007-01-24 09:40:02.006 Channel(/dev/video0)::TuneTo(312): Error, failed
> to find channel.
> 2007-01-24 09:40:02.010 TVRec(1) Error: Failed to set channel to 312.
> Reverting to kState_None
> 2007-01-24 09:40:02.014 TVRec(1): Changing from RecordingOnly to None
> 2007-01-24 09:40:02.063 Canceled recording (Recorder Failed): testing
> (Manual Record) "Wed Jan 24 09:45:00 2007": channel 1312 on cardid 1,
> sourceid 1
> 2007-01-24 09:40:05.126 Error deleting
> '/media/hda3/mythtv//1312_20070124094000.mpg': No such file or directory
> 2007-01-24 09:40:11.147 Reschedule requested for id 0.
> 2007-01-24 09:40:11.281 Scheduled 68 items in 0.1 = 0.01 match + 0.13
> place
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> --Phil

This error was fixed by reloading linux and reinstalling mythtv with the
same configuration.  Apparently something in mythtv got corrupted when I
downloaded it.