Video4Linux question...

I'm hoping someone here can help me out...

I've written this script that, when launched from the command line, will change the channel on my tuner card and record for a set period of time. It takes the first argument as the channel, the second argument as the time length, the third as the time unit (minutes or seconds), and the 4th (if supplied) as the file name. I use streamer (from the xawtv package) to record and v4lctl (also from the xawtv package) to change the channel.

When launched from the command line, it records flawlessly. When I launch the script from cron, it refuses to change the channel. It'll record whatever channel I was last on.

Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening?

One possibility is that cron, running as root, doesn't find the .xawtv file. Is there a .xawtv file in /root? If not, you could probably try copying your $HOME/.xawtv file over there and see if that helps.

You have the right basic idea... I had (stupidly) set HOME to be something other than my homedir It's working fine now, though.