[mythtv-users] Dish Network, MythTV not recording - Part 2

Rodney Myers rdmyers at mtpalomar.net
Mon Aug 11 01:02:17 UTC 2008


On Aug 10, 2008, at 6:12 AM, Rodney Myers wrote:

> On Aug 9, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>>>
>>> You need to connect you STB to your PVR card via RCA cables or
>>> S-video.  Then set up a IR Blaster to change the channels on the  
>>> STB.
>>> Then change you input connections so your Dish box is connected to  
>>> the
>>> appropriate input.
>>
>> Or, if nothing else, just put /bin/true in for your channel change
>> script for the video source in mythtv-setup.  Then, the channel  
>> change
>> will not fail (but will do exactly nothing--so you'll see the need  
>> for
>> the IR transmitter).
>>
>> Mike
>
> Thank you. I will run mythtv-setup again, and set it to the above.

It took me about 30 minutes, to find the correct place to input this  
info.

Now that I have attempted to record on a higher numbered channel,  
nothing in the log files, "Backend Status" claims to be recording, and  
away we go.

Many thanks.
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