[mythtv-users] LIRC help needed with IguanaIR and PACE DC50X

mythtv at derdev.com mythtv at derdev.com
Fri Jul 2 11:21:43 UTC 2010


On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 21:18:35 -0700, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com>
wrote:
> A big thank you!
> 
> I had to restart my BE and found that the iguana channels were set to
> 0 instead of what I had set them at (4). Do they get reset?
> 
> Anyway, I took your channel changing script (maybe you should put that
> on the wiki) and found I needed to change the setting of where you set
> the transmitter from 1 to 3
> 
> irsend set_transmitters 3
> 
> That was all I needed to do to change channels.
> 
> ====
> My next problem is the setting in myth setup. I have a PVR250 and
> placed the channel changer script in the appropriate place, set it to
> channel 3 and tested it with Live TV.  All I got was a blank screen.
> (I have 3 other tuners that work fine and I switched to this one.)
> 
> I see in the WIKI that Myth does not take channel number but freq ID.
> Is that still the case (don't know if the wiki is up to date)
> If that's the case, that's probably why there's a black screen.

My experience is that a blank screen on WatchTV with this was because the
channel change script wasn't found.  

You need to check the backend log to verify.  

I believe the default folder is /usr/local/bin/ so make sure the script is
there, is set to executable, owned by mythtv's user, etc.







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