This is some testing I was able to do over the last couple of days. I put the test script in place of the original. It has had a pretty good rate of success until I started "messing" with it by <div>trying to watch live tv. When changing channels with the keyboard, it worked without error quite a few times. Actually I couldn't get it to fail with the keyboard method </div>
<div>(running "<a href="http://directv.pl">directv.pl</a> setup_channel"). I noticed any 3 digit channel change would first try to go to the first number of the channel sequence. For example, changing to 206 would first try changing </div>
<div>to channel 2 until it got the rest of the numbers, then finally change to 206. Amazingly it was successful each time (out of 10 or so changes).</div><div><br></div><div>Using my Harmony 880 however was unsuccessful nearly every time. I would see a blank screen for several seconds then it would bounce back to the main menu with "Irrecoverable error." </div>
<div>I would love to stop there and say the remote was the only problem but I still see where I get "Canceled recording: Recorder failed" on some occasions when it has tried running a scheduled </div><div>recording. Next I will change the box type to H21 and see how that goes. I hope to do this tonight if possible. I will also use the original remote for the PVR350 to see if it fails as the Harmony </div>
<div>does.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Bob Gamble <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kiksadiweb@gmail.com">kiksadiweb@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
That's right. I'll have time this weekend to do some more troubleshooting. Thanks again for your help. I'll let you know what I see.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:13 PM, David Gesswein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:djg@pdp8online.com" target="_blank">djg@pdp8online.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>> Thanks again. I will report back this weekend on any results should I need<br>
> to do this. An interesting thing is happening since I wiped the<br>
> cards and schedule source two nights ago. When reconfiguring this time I<br>
> tried the external channel change command:<br>
> /usr/local/bin/<a href="http://directv.pl" target="_blank">directv.pl</a><br>
> on its own, with no parameters. I haven't had a failed recording since<br>
> then.<br>
><br>
</div>The difference is setup_channel sends the sequence box on, channel<br>
change, OSD off, then verifies channel changed and retries if not correct.<br>
<br>
Without it all it does is send the channel change command. Since it doesn't<br>
check the channel you can't get this error:<br>
<div>Excessive channel change retries, commanded 206 got 13<br>
<br>
</div>Instead you may get a recording of the wrong station. It would be good if<br>
you have the time to track down why the setup_channel doesn't work.<br>
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