[mythtvnz] mythtv irblasting woes

Tue Jan 1 22:10:10 GMT 2008

Hi Simon,

thanks so much for your reply and help.

I changed the delay but still the sky box still doesnt pick anything up.

I think my problem is that i have no motorola codes in my lircd.conf.
All i've got is the mceusb detail.

I tried irrecord but no luck :(  said it was in use.  When i managed  
to try and terminate it - it said i didnt have permissions.

can anybody send me their lirc file so that i can copy paste.

thanks in advance

i own the standard black sky nz motorola box DTH335-4 - it's about 2  
years old.

M

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>   1. Re: irblasting and sky box (Mark Addy)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:05:10 +1300
> From: Mark Addy <mark.addy at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] irblasting and sky box
> To: mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
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> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm running mythbuntu and after 6 days (this is my second attempt in 3
> months) of trying to get it figured out i'm finally getting the IR to
> work.
>
> It doesnt change channels unfortunately - the blips seem too fast.
> I really really wish i could get this sorted.
>
> Another unrelated issue is my lirc seems to fail sometimes and i get
> no response (this has been after trying all sorts of fixes - default
> mythbuntu settings work fine)
>
> please can somebody help me.
> pulling my hair out.
>
> using mce remote (the new one) and a microsoft usb ir blaster.
> sky decoder is DTH335-4 motorola sky nz.
>
> When i was running mediaportal the zenith codes seemed to work.
>
> help
>
> thanks in advance
>
> M
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:23:12 +1300
> From: "Simon Green" <simon at simongreen.net>
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] irblasting and sky box
> To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
> Message-ID:
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> On 31/12/2007, Mark Addy <mark.addy at mac.com> wrote:
>> I'm running mythbuntu and after 6 days (this is my second attempt  
>> in 3
>> months) of trying to get it figured out i'm finally getting the IR to
>> work.
>>
>> It doesnt change channels unfortunately - the blips seem too fast.
>> I really really wish i could get this sorted.
>
> In your channel change script, trying putting a 'sleep 0.3' between
> the key presses. This should solve the problem with the blips being
> too fast.
>
>> Another unrelated issue is my lirc seems to fail sometimes and i get
>> no response (this has been after trying all sorts of fixes - default
>> mythbuntu settings work fine)
>>
>> please can somebody help me.
>> pulling my hair out.
>
> Can't help you on the second issue unfortunately. My MCE remote works
> without any problems.
>
>  -- simon
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:35:09 +1300
> From: Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz>
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] EPG Data from Sky Sat
> To: MythTV in NZ <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
> Message-ID: <200712311035.10077.hads at nice.net.nz>
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> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:43:20 Robin Gilks wrote:
>> I've been mystified by epgsnoop/tv_grab_nz and mythfilldatabase  
>> recently
>> as well.
>>
>> The xml file is coming out from epgsnoop correctly as evidenced by  
>> using
>> mythfilldatabase directly with
>> mythfilldatabase --update --file 4 listings-all.xml
>> Note: parameters have changed on SVN HEAD version of mfdb
>>
>> However, I noticed two issues:
>>
>> 1. Two new channels, cuetv and parliament don't get updated when  
>> using the
>> grabber (they do in manual mode as above).
>>
>> 2. Even though I have the grabber set to use the Sky version of the
>> tv1/2/3.sky.co.nz listings, I mistakenly set the xmltvid in mythtv- 
>> setup
>> to tv1/2/3.freeviewnz.tv and it still updates. Is there some config  
>> other
>> than in the mythconverg->channel table? I've checked in mythweb and  
>> I have
>> no duplicates indicated there and can see nothing by looking at the  
>> mysql
>> db with webmin.
>>
>> I've tried running the grabber as another user (so no config file)  
>> and it
>> fails immediately (as it should). I take it that the grabber config  
>> file
>> just acts as a filter to remove those channels that are not  
>> required and
>> have no other interaction with mfdb?
>>
>> Here is my xmltv config file for the grabber (sorry about the size  
>> of it!!)
>>
>> g8ecj at zeus ~ $ cat .xmltv/tv_grab_nz-py.conf
> [snip]
>
> I noticed that the config you quoted there is ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_nz- 
> py.conf
> tv_grab_nz-py will use that as a default but mythfilldatabase will  
> call the
> grabber with it's own options, typically using a config such as
> ~/.mythtv/Sky.xmltv (where Sky is your source name). Perhaps you  
> have two
> configs without noticing?
>
> You can do a mythfilldatabase -v xmltv to get a little more info  
> about the
> grabber call.
>
> hads
>
> -- 
> http://nicegear.co.nz
> VoIP, DVB and other Linux compatible hardware
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:11:19 +1300 (NZDT)
> From: "Robin Gilks" <g8ecj at gilks.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] EPG Data from Sky Sat
> To: mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
> Message-ID: <59626.192.168.1.15.1199052679.squirrel at gilks.ath.cx>
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>>
>> I noticed that the config you quoted there is ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_nz- 
>> py.conf
>> tv_grab_nz-py will use that as a default but mythfilldatabase will  
>> call
>> the
>> grabber with it's own options, typically using a config such as
>> ~/.mythtv/Sky.xmltv (where Sky is your source name). Perhaps you  
>> have two
>> configs without noticing?
>>
>> You can do a mythfilldatabase -v xmltv to get a little more info  
>> about the
>> grabber call.
>>
>> hads
>
> Thanks Hads - that was the problem, the backend runs as the mythtv  
> user
> and the config file(s) in /home/mythtv/.mythtv being used for each  
> source
> hadn't been updated.
>
> Phew - back to holiday jobs :-)
>
> -- 
> Robin Gilks
>
>
>
>
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