Or just go to the AVS forums and search there. They know WAY to much about HomeTheater stuff.
On 8/3/05, Gavin Haslett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Be aware also that unless you request it from DirecTV, your serial port may > not even be enabled. I had to specify to them that I was planning to use a > Tivo and they enabled it for me over the phone. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of David George > Sent: Tue 8/2/2005 6:10 PM > To: Discussion about mythtv > Cc: > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DirectTV external tuner help > Alex Van Deusen wrote: > > >I have a Sony Bat55 directv box. It is connected via a serial cable to > >my mythbackend. The ports are enabled in bios. > > > >I downloaded the script from tarek "sony.pl". Then put it into > >/usr/local/sony.pl. In mythtv-setup I set the command to reference > >that location. > > > >I tried to to have myth record and change channels but it did not work. > > > > > What does did not work mean? Did you get an error? What happens when > you try the script from the command line. Does the serial port in the > script match the one you have the receiver connected to? By default the > script uses /dev/ttyS0. > > >I then logged in as root su, when I did setserial dev/ttyS0 it gave me > >correct information and listed irq4, dev/ttyS1 is irq3 > > > >It seems like it is a problem with the user not having access, but I > >dont know how to troubleshoot. > > > > > Probably not, as you set the devices to 777. There are so many other > things it could be like: cable is wired wrong, script is not the right > one for that receiver, is the script set to the same device you have the > directv receiver plugged into. BTW, on some (most?) Linux distros the > dev entries are created dynamically and the permissions may be reset > after a reboot. So don't reboot (this isn't Winblows after all). > > >One note I am sharing IRQ's, I have 5 capture cards in the box, and > >scsi, agp, etc.. > > > > > In this case shouldn't be a problem. > > I have a different receiver (RCA DRD-435) and use a different script > (rca_control.pl), but this link may help you: > http://mythhd.info/directv.html > > -- > David > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
