On Thursday 20 October 2005 06:35, Andrew Wilson wrote: > On 19/10/05, Adrian Wilkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As an aside, the "dvbdate" utility makes a fabulous alternative to NTP > > if you have any DVB cards ; you get a timesync that is, by definition, > > perfect for recording TV, and you don't piss off any NTP services, no > > matter how often you sync. > > Yes, this is one of the nice spinoffs of using DVB. I have it sync the > clock on bootup and in a daily cron job. Works perfectly, You need to > tune first though. Do something like: > > #!/bin/bash > # Tune DVB adapter if nobody else is already doing so: > # I have a channel called Q. I think it's a radio station. It's handy > to type :-) > if [ -z `fuser /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0` ] ; then > tzap Q & > dvbdate --set > kill $! > else > dvbdate --set > fi
unless your cable company doesn't send the signal for this! I just tried, but either comcast doesn't support this or I have to tune to a specific channel? Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
