[mythtvnz] PVR150 channel changing woes

Criggie mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:11:10 +1200 (NZST)


Graeme Woollett wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting mythtv to change the channel using these cards.
> I'm getting EPG from hairy geek - all that's working fine.  I couldn't
> get mythtv to natively change the channels so I used the external
> command and ivtv-tune to do this.

Code

> The script is reported in mythbackend.log as having successfully run but
> the channel didn't get changed.  BTW this script works quite happily
> from the command line. >:o
> Since mythtv doesn't for some strange reason make use of the external
> command for live TV I really would like to get it going natively.  I
> have configured PVR-x150 capture and tied it to my hairy geek video
> source from an empty mythconverg database using mythfilldatabase --manual.
> Looking at the database tables with mysqlcc, the channel and card
> entries all seem to be correct.
>
> Can anyone who has a PVR150 give any clues on how to get native channel
> changing going?

You're gonna hate this, but "it just works for me"

> when mythtv tries to change the channel itself I get
> QDateTime::String Parameter out of range messages from mythfrontend.

That sounds to me like you've got a 0 somewhere there should be a number.

http://criggie.dyndns.org/crap/tvone.jpg   Thats my mythtv-setup --> 5.
Channels --> then TV One.   Compare and see whats wrong on yours.


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Criggie