[mythtv-users] Is anybody able to change channels on a 4250HDC STB via firewire?

[Matt Emmott]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've got Mythbuntu 8.10 running with 0.22-trunk and have set up a slave
> BE
> > with an HD-PVR. I have succesfully been able to capture video from my
> > SA4250HDC STB and would like to use one of the firewire contrib scripts
> to
> > change the channel. However, none of the scripts work. When I attempt to
> use
> > the SA3250 script, I get the message "Ignoring SA 4250HDC on node 1 --
> sorry
> > not supported yet Could not find SA3250HD or SA4200HD on the IEEE 1394
> bus."
> >
> > Has anybody found a way to change the channel on this STB? I'm open to
> any
> > option. Thanks in advance.
>
> If you are using the 6200ch script, you must add the STB's vendorID
> and modelID in the source code and recompile.
> I found it by running 6200ch with the args:
>
> 6200ch -v -n <node> 2
>
> example for node 0:
>
> 6200ch -v -n0 2
>
> This will report the vendorID and modelID that you need to place in
> 6200ch. You add it to the top of the code and there is a place near
> the bottom to add as well.
>
> If you are not using 6200ch, I don't know what to tell you. Sorry.
>
>
> --
> Brad Fuller
>

Thanks for the tip. However, I end up with two different IDs even though I
only have one firewire device attached:

node 0: vendor_id = 0x00001106 model_id = 0x00000000
node 1: vendor_id = 0x000022ce model_id = 0x000010cc

Do I assume it's the second one, since node 0's model_id is all zeroes?
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