With the help of Pete Stagman, I have attempted to create a how-to guide for controlling an external cable/satellite box using an IR blaster. What makes this guide different from other guides on this matter is that this guide shows how to achieve cable/sat box control WITHOUT compiling a second instance of LIRC. Both Pete and I have been using this method for a while now, and it has been trouble free.
At the moment, the guide is currently geared around users who are using FC3 and followed Jarod's guide to do their myth install. However, I would like for it to be more "distro-neutral," so any community feedback I could get to achieve this would be greatly appreciated. Also, info from people using non PVR-x50 cards is needed as well, especially concerning some of the edits made to the modprobe.conf file in Step 3 of the guide. This guide should be useful to FC3 users since FC3 no longer comes with Kernel source code. Regardless of that fact, since this process only involves making changes to a few files (noteably modprobe.conf, lircd.conf and rc.local), it should be substantially faster than compiling a second instance of LIRC, and a bit easier for newbies as well. This has been a bit of a learning experiment for me, so any feedback (positive or otherwise) is welcome. http://comp.uark.edu/~aslong/mythtv.html Thanks. -Andy
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