I had similar problems and If i recall the issue was permissions on ttyS0 Mike Luich
On 1/3/06, Jeff Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/3/06, Kirk Grell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can get directv.pl to change channels on the command > > line, but it doesn't work within MythTV. The error > > from mythbackend appears to be: > > > > ... > > 2006-01-02 19:36:43.447 ret_pid(0) child(17816) > > status(0x0) > > Error excessive retries > > 2006-01-02 19:36:44.451 ret_pid(17816) child(17816) > > status(0xff00) > > 2006-01-02 19:36:44.452 ChannelBase: external tuning > > program exited with error 255 > > ... > > > > I've got a D10-100 and the command I'm using in MythTV > > is: > > > > /usr/share/mythtv/directv.pl setup_channel > > > > I've even tried: > > > > /usr/share/mythtv/directv.pl box_type D10-100 > > setup_channel > > > > with no success. > > > > I've seen quite a few posts on similar issues, but I > > never saw any resolutions I can try. I'm using the > > latest versions of everything (MythTV, directv.pl, > > etc). > > > > Any help debugging this would be greatly appreciated. > > > A couple things to try: > > 1). Run mythbackend from a commandline with debugging output on, so you can > see the output of the directv.pl script > 2). Make sure when you test the script it's with the same user the backend > runs with. > 3). Related to #2, check permissions on the serial device (/dev/ttyS0 or > whatever) to make sure that isn't the problem. > 4). Check the path to make sure the right copy of the script is being run, > and that it is being found. You may even want to try putting the full path > to the script in the myth setup. > > Hopefully one of those will get you closer to a solution! > > - Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > 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
