Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??
Solved. I inserted a sleep command in the changechannel script BEFORE I send the command. sleep .5 Its possibly a thread contention issue of some sort? Anyway experiment with different sleep options to get the best configuration for your setup. David - Original Message - From: "David Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:22 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only?? I'm having a similiar issue with a USB connected blaster..so I'm pretty sure its not related to the serial line speed or configuration. What I've noticed is it only pops up if the same blaster is used to receive the command as send the command. Symptoms: 1) recording is 100% reliable (thank you lord) 2) changing channels is 25% reliable 3) Using previous channel to flip back and forth is reliable. I'm going to experiment with inserting sleep settings to see if it helps. David - Original Message - From: "George Nassas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only?? On 26-Oct-05, at 1:08 PM, Scott S. wrote: Has anyone seen this? Or have any other ideas on a fix? Any help would be great. I haven't seen this problem with mine but I remember when I was setting up a modem I had a heck of a time getting the serial connection to work reliably. One thought I have is when you test it through the command line are you the same user as the myth backend? I remember that being a factor for some reason, you may have to add the backend user to the dialout group or whoever owns the serial port. Or, do the channel change through a script that explicitly sets the line parameters before running the channel change script. - George ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??
I had a lot of trouble changing channels reliably since I moved to dish
network 301 receivers from a 5xx series. Someone suggested that the gap
value in the file may have to be changed and that it was cpu/serial port
dependent.
I kept changing it and figured it was a lost cause at one point, and was
about to order a MyBlaster, but then I decided to change it some more
and eventually ended up with something that seems ok. I started with a
gap of 175000 and ended with 40 in /etc/ledxmitd.conf.
I tossed together this script to zap and restore things to try different
gap values. I'm sure someone could clean it up if they cared to do
so...
#!/bin/bash
modprobe -r ledxmit_serial
modprobe -r ledxmit_dev
PID=$(ps -A | grep ledxm | egrep -o "[0-9]{3,5}")
echo "Found PID=[$PID]"
if [[ "$PID" != "" ]]
then
echo "Killing existing instance of ledxmit..."
kill -s 9 $PID
fi
/bin/echo "Starting ledxmit stuff..."
setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
update-modules
modprobe ledxmit_serial
nice -n -20 /usr/local/lirc-ledxmit/sbin/ledxmit-ledxmitd
For reference that is an AMD XP 2000+ (Technically it is actually an AMD
MP 1900+ running as a 2000+.) with an nforce 2 motherboard.
It seems that the normal way of entering remote codes from an unknown
remote will determine the value of the gap, but, unfortunately, dish
network receivers run at 56kHz(?) and my IR receiver doesn't pick up
them, so I was stuck working from a premade file and guessing.
-Robert
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 13:19 -0400, George Nassas wrote:
> On 26-Oct-05, at 1:08 PM, Scott S. wrote:
>
> > Has anyone seen this? Or have any other ideas on a fix? Any help would
> > be great.
>
> I haven't seen this problem with mine but I remember when I was setting
> up a modem I had a heck of a time getting the serial connection to work
> reliably. One thought I have is when you test it through the command
> line are you the same user as the myth backend? I remember that being a
> factor for some reason, you may have to add the backend user to the
> dialout group or whoever owns the serial port. Or, do the channel
> change through a script that explicitly sets the line parameters before
> running the channel change script.
>
> - George
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??
I'm having a similiar issue with a USB connected blaster..so I'm pretty sure its not related to the serial line speed or configuration. What I've noticed is it only pops up if the same blaster is used to receive the command as send the command. Symptoms: 1) recording is 100% reliable (thank you lord) 2) changing channels is 25% reliable 3) Using previous channel to flip back and forth is reliable. I'm going to experiment with inserting sleep settings to see if it helps. David - Original Message - From: "George Nassas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only?? On 26-Oct-05, at 1:08 PM, Scott S. wrote: Has anyone seen this? Or have any other ideas on a fix? Any help would be great. I haven't seen this problem with mine but I remember when I was setting up a modem I had a heck of a time getting the serial connection to work reliably. One thought I have is when you test it through the command line are you the same user as the myth backend? I remember that being a factor for some reason, you may have to add the backend user to the dialout group or whoever owns the serial port. Or, do the channel change through a script that explicitly sets the line parameters before running the channel change script. - George ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??
On 26-Oct-05, at 1:08 PM, Scott S. wrote: Has anyone seen this? Or have any other ideas on a fix? Any help would be great. I haven't seen this problem with mine but I remember when I was setting up a modem I had a heck of a time getting the serial connection to work reliably. One thought I have is when you test it through the command line are you the same user as the myth backend? I remember that being a factor for some reason, you may have to add the backend user to the dialout group or whoever owns the serial port. Or, do the channel change through a script that explicitly sets the line parameters before running the channel change script. - George ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??
Hello, I've recently switch TV providers (because the company I work for is offering TV services now) and we have Amino AmiNet110's for set top boxes. I'm using a MyBlaster, the serial one from my tv store (mytvsore dot com). I use the MyBlaster.pl that you can download for use with the MyBlaster and I've found that is I run the MyBlaster.pl from the command prompt it changes the channel great, but when I am in Myth and it tries to change the channel using the same script it fails the majority of the time. There's typically three things could happen when it fails, one is it could do nothing. It's rare but it's happened a couple of times), another is that it misses a digit (usually at the beginning or middle of the channel number), and the third is that it may repeat a number (for instance 8 turns into 88). I'm not sure why this would happen in just Myth. I've used TVtime and XawTV to test the channel changing from the command line, and that works flawlessly, changing the channel while Myth is running and watching live TV also works flawlessly. It only fails when Myth itself tries to change the channel with the MyBlaster.pl script. I've played around with the timing in the MyBlaster.pl script and have re trained the MyBlaster with the IR codes over a dozen times, nothing seems to change how it acts tho, it works from the command line great but acts really weird when Myth goes to change the channel. The other thing I have done is made my own channelchange.pl and had it call the MyBlaster script to send the raw IR code to the MyBlaster script, that hasn't helped either though. Has anyone seen this? Or have any other ideas on a fix? Any help would be great. Thank You, Scott ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
