[mythtv-users] Channel changing question with HD-PVR

[Christian Szpilfogel]

Fred Hamilton wrote:
> On a semi-related note, yesterday we had a brief power outage.  When 
> the power came back on, my mythbox rebooted and started working 
> normally, but all my new recordings were zero length.  It took me much 
> longer than it should have to realize that my Motorola cable box had 
> not turned back on when power was restored.  So I'm going to look into 
> modifying mythchanger to:
> - check if cable box is on or off and power on if it's off, and
> - check the current channel and only change the channel if it's different
>
> No one should hold their breath for me to make these changes, 
> though...I'm a decent VB6 programmer but my c skills are pretty 
> dismal.  And I'm only assuming the cablebox supports those functions 
> over firewire - it might not.
>
Or you could use this which I created for the same reason.
https://code.google.com/p/sa3250cmd/
It should work for a Motorola box as I'm really just using standard 
protocol defined over 10 years ago. I should change the name shouldn't I.