[mythtv-users] Joy and pain (Daryl McDonald)

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Daryl,

Sunday, February 16, 2014, 11:00:51 PM, you wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 17 Feb 2014, at 8:03 am, "Daryl McDonald" <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Try using the name 'DCT2000' as defined in
>>>>> '/usr/share/lirc/extras/transmitters/motorola/dctxxxx.conf'
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Tot mails,
>>>>>  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
>>>>> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
>>>>> Het eeuwige dilemma
>>>>> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>>>>
>>>> efore I try that let me report that I am communicating with the stb
>>>> via the command line, as yet not the "check_stb" script. thgis
>>>> happened as a result of changing the /etc/lirc/lircd.conf file. I
>>>> commented out the original ending line and added a new one, like so:
>>>>
>>>> #include "/usr/share/lirc/extras/transmitters/motorola/dctxxxx.conf"
>>>> include "/etc/lirc/DCT700.conf"
>>>>>
>>>>> Does this help determine the next step?     Daryl
>>>
>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/local/bin/check_stb
>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/bin/irsend SEND_ONCE DCT700 POWER
>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/bin/irsend SEND_ONCE DCT700 POWER
>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/bin/irsend SEND_ONCE DCT700 POWER
>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/local/bin/check_stb
>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/local/bin/change-channel.sh
>>> irsend: not enough arguments
>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
>>>
>>> The first command returned no complaints, but did not turn on the stb.
>>> The second, third, and fourth command did cycle the stb on and off.
>>> The fifth, again no change.
>>> The sixth received this complaint because no channel info was given
>>> (usually by mythtv)       Daryl
>>> _______________________________________________
>> Daryl, I think you could just grab a channel number and put it at the end of the channel change command. When I looked briefly at the script it seemed somewhat forgiving to format so the (valid) number by itself should be sufficient.
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> I didn't have much success there.:

> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/bin/irsend SEND_ONCE DCT700 21
> irsend: command failed: SEND_ONCE DCT700 21
> irsend: unknown command: "21"

I think mark ment:
/usr/local/bin/change-channel.sh 21


Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

"Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
Zonder leven is er geen hoop
Het eeuwige dilemma
Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"

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