Ant Daniel wrote: >I have a PVR 350 and can check the sky signal status by using ivtvctl >-I allows me to tell if the sky box is on or off, without trying to >constantly turn it on. (So if I do play with your prog I mght make >some changes regarding that). > > As Neil said, interesting. -I isn't in the docs for ivtvctl. It works though. I have a sky->SCART->VHS video->S-video->PVR350 and get the following results
Skybox off: teak:/everything/devel/ivtv/0.2.0/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3k/utils# ./ivtvctl -I check SAA7115 input signal ioctl: VIDEO_STATUS = Bad SAA7115 reg[STATUS#1 - 0x1E] = 02 Color Standard (D0-D1): PAL White peak loop (D2): Not activated Gain value for act.lum. (min) (D3): Not limited Gain value for act.lum. (max) (D4): Not limited WIPA-mode slow-time constant (D5): Not activated Horizontal frequency (D6): Locked Field length (D7): Non-standard SAA7115 reg[STATUS#2 - 0x1F] = 01 Ready for capture (D0): Yes Macrovision 7.01 (D1): No MV Colorstripe burst (D2): No MV Colorstripe burst type 3 (D3): No Input signal timebase (D4): Non-stable (VCR) Field frequency (D5): 50Hz H & V loops (D6): Locked Interlace (D7): Not detected and on: teak:/everything/devel/ivtv/0.2.0/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3k/utils# ./ivtvctl -I check SAA7115 input signal ioctl: VIDEO_STATUS = Sat/Dvd SAA7115 reg[STATUS#1 - 0x1E] = 82 Color Standard (D0-D1): PAL White peak loop (D2): Not activated Gain value for act.lum. (min) (D3): Not limited Gain value for act.lum. (max) (D4): Not limited WIPA-mode slow-time constant (D5): Not activated Horizontal frequency (D6): Locked Field length (D7): Standard SAA7115 reg[STATUS#2 - 0x1F] = 91 Ready for capture (D0): Yes Macrovision 7.01 (D1): No MV Colorstripe burst (D2): No MV Colorstripe burst type 3 (D3): No Input signal timebase (D4): Stable (broadcast/DVD) Field frequency (D5): 50Hz H & V loops (D6): Locked Interlace (D7): Detected Cool. That's going in Nagios ;) Now, can I read a flag that says: "myth is recording"? David _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users