Alex Van Deusen wrote:
I have a Sony Bat55 directv box. It is connected via a serial cable to
my mythbackend. The ports are enabled in bios.
I downloaded the script from tarek "sony.pl". Then put it into
/usr/local/sony.pl. In mythtv-setup I set the command to reference
that location.
I tried to to have myth record and change channels but it did not work.
What does did not work mean? Did you get an error? What happens when
you try the script from the command line. Does the serial port in the
script match the one you have the receiver connected to? By default the
script uses /dev/ttyS0.
I then logged in as root su, when I did setserial dev/ttyS0 it gave me
correct information and listed irq4, dev/ttyS1 is irq3
It seems like it is a problem with the user not having access, but I
dont know how to troubleshoot.
Probably not, as you set the devices to 777. There are so many other
things it could be like: cable is wired wrong, script is not the right
one for that receiver, is the script set to the same device you have the
directv receiver plugged into. BTW, on some (most?) Linux distros the
dev entries are created dynamically and the permissions may be reset
after a reboot. So don't reboot (this isn't Winblows after all).
One note I am sharing IRQ's, I have 5 capture cards in the box, and
scsi, agp, etc..
In this case shouldn't be a problem.
I have a different receiver (RCA DRD-435) and use a different script
(rca_control.pl), but this link may help you:
http://mythhd.info/directv.html
--
David
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