DirecTV Serial Tuning Problems

[harrijay]

I have 2 directv receivers hooked up to a computer. one D11-100 and one H21-200. I am able to control the D11-100 with out any issue. I am unable to control the H21-200 for any period of time. I have gotten a couple successful changes in but then it will stop working. I am not sure what to try out to get this working.

Here is what the logs say

Wed 6/4 19:17:30.990 DTVSerial Valid Command Recognized for handle 55
Wed 6/4 19:17:31.031 DTVSerial Set Top is Processing Request for handle 55
Wed 6/4 19:17:31.039 DTVSerial Command Successful for handle 55
Wed 6/4 19:17:31.039 DTVSerial channel change worked

I also tried copying the .so from 6.3 to see if that would make a difference. I have tried reconfiging the cable and I am able to change the channel from a windows box using the TV translator utility.

Oh yeah I almost forgot I am running the latest beta if that makes any difference. please feel free to move this to the beta section if it makes more sense to go there. I just thought it would get more linux exposure this way

[BFisher]

check out this thread - maybe it will help

[harrijay]

how do I set this value in linux?

[bcjenkins]

You might try upgrading or reflashing the firmware on the tv translators. I don't have H21s, but D11s and had to do this a while back when I was noticing issues like you mention.

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[harrijay]

I have upgraded the firmware to version 4.18 which I downloaded from the web. I set all of the settings to the factory defaults as the website indicates. If I use the change channel button in the utility it changes the channel just fine, so my assumption is that it is something in the .so that sage is providing.

[harrijay]

For anyone interested I am able to change the channel on my H21 in windows when I set the registry key

(create as a DWORD and set to 1 to enable): HKLM\SOFTWARE\Frey Technologies\SageTV\DirecTVSerialFastChannelChanges

However this option is not available on Linux. I contacted support and they are going to add this option for linux in the future.