>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Hulse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kevin> Also, the DishTV set top boxes have this nasty habit of Kevin> putting you in a deadend condition if you select the wrong Kevin> channel. This is a problem with Tivo since it neither detects nor Kevin> routes around this problem. The Dish box is basically expecting Kevin> human interaction contrary to the automated responses from the Kevin> Tivo. Kevin> Tivo wants to spit out full channel numbers and the Dish box Kevin> wants to only get chan-up or chan-down. The end result is a bunch Kevin> of trashed recordings. Kevin> I was wondering if Myth has any "crash detection" or any Kevin> other methods to route around this sort of problem? Kevin> For the Dish boxes, I suppose adding a chan-up command as a Kevin> prefix to any explicit channel input would suffice as a Kevin> workaround. Hi Kevin, I did this for a while with my mythtv/dish setup, but it ran into the same issue when the chan-up put me onto a PPV channel... I've been focusing my efforts more on hdtv lately, so I haven't been fiddling with it much recently. Can you access the guide from those screens? If so, that might be a "works everywhere" thing. Or, we could always grab a still picture of the channel-change banner and OCR it to see if it matches the channel we want to be on. Or compare the picture with the "bad channel" screen? Steve.
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