[mythtvnz] Sky setup...

[Robert Connolly]

Thanks for all the responses on this, especially the great instructions
from Stephen. I haven't had time to try this out yet, but hopefully I
should get around to some mythtv stuff over the weekend.

Thanks again!

Rob

On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 16:05 +1300, Steve Hodge wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:44 AM, David Lowe <david at thistledown.co.nz>
> wrote:
>         
>         On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Stephen Worthington
>         <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>                 
>                 Using an IRBlaster to change channels is not always
>                 reliable.  I still
>                 have the occasional problem where a digit gets missed,
>                 so I think I
>                 might need a small sleep command or two to delay
>                 things a little.
>                 
>         Thanks Stephen for your comprehensive note. Just on
>         reliability, I have been using the other script I referred to
>         for over two years without a hitch. I guess the difference is
>         indeed the sleep command but I dont know how to include it in
>         your script.
>         
>  
> Put it in after each of the system calls in the script, i.e.
> ...
> 
>   if ($channel_digit_0 != "0") {
>      system("irsend SEND_ONCE $remote_name $channel_digit_1");
>      sleep 1;
>   }
>   system("irsend SEND_ONCE $remote_name $channel_digit_2");
>   sleep 1;
>   system("irsend SEND_ONCE $remote_name $channel_digit_3");
> ...
> 
> Personally I'm a little confused as to why the Sky channels have been
> set up in the range of 1000-1999? Wouldn't it be simpler to set the
> freqid of the Sky channel to the actual channel number? You can still
> have MythTV use 1000-1999 by setting the channum to that and leave the
> freqid as the actual channel number (e.g. The Box could be channel
> number = 1005, freqid = 5). That way you only have to send one digit
> to the Sky box which would make channel changes quicker and less prone
> to errors (for channels 1-9).
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve
> 
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