I built my first MythTV box about 5 months and have been using it since. Originally I had a ReplayTV connected to analog cable from Comcast. Once I had started using MythTV, I've been very impressed, and quickly discarded my ReplayTV. Recently, I moved and switched from Comcast(Cable) to Dish, and am now using a Dish 311 receiver. My only option to switch channels, that I know of, is to use an irblaster. I ordered the irblaster from http://irblaster.info which I received about a week ago.
I've tried to configure LIRC using http://www.lircsetup.com/lirc/blaster/index.php. I was able to complete the instructions, but tests fail. I can still use the PVR-350's remote without issues. Using the channel-chan.sh produces no errors. Sending the command "irsend --device=/dev/lircd1 SEND_ONCE DISH 1" produces no errors. The irblaster doesn't change channels Assuming my lircd config for the DISH remote was bad, I found lircd.conf files for 2 different TV's I have. One is a phillips, and the other is a Samsung. Using irsend, and the irblaster pointed at the TV's I tried issuing channel change commands without any luck The lircd.conf files should be correct for the TV's at least. I can point the remotes for the TV's at the PVR-350's ir receiver and irw shows the correct key presses for the TV remotes. Pressing 0 on my phillips remote results in the correct output of "0000000000001000 01 tv1-0 phillips" from irw. I tried pointing the irblaster at the PVR-350 reciever(not sure if this should work) and regardless of the irsend command I try, there's no data. I've tried using settings for both COM1(ttyS0) and COM2(ttyS1) and neither work. I also double checked my bios to make sure the COM ports were configured correctly. RH FC3 - kernel 770_14 Hauppauge PVR-350 Nvidia NFORCE2 chipset(Abit MB) MythTV 0.17 All packages installed are the latest stable releases from ATrpms I have the following lirc devices(lircd1 is the lirc_serial device) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls /dev/lirc* /dev/lirc /dev/lirc0 /dev/lirc1 /dev/lircd /dev/lircd1 I have the following lirc packages installed lirc-lib-0.7.0-45.rhfc3.at lirc-devices-0.7.0-1.rhfc3.at lirc-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at-0.7.0-45.rhfc3.at lirc-0.7.0-45.rhfc3.at lirc-lib-devel-0.7.0-45.rhfc3.at cat /var/log/messages shows the following ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq =4) is a 16550A lirc_serial: auto-detected active high receiver lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin:sample_rate: 0 I read somewhere, that you can use a digital camera to see the light signal from the IR transmitters. Using cameraI have, I can see the light from my remotes, but not the IRBlaster. At this point I have no clue where to go from here to troubleshoot this. I haven't yet tried the instructions on compiling a 2nd copy of lirc. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Also, does anyone have a lircd.conf file for a DISH 311 they know for sure works? I've have trouble finding a lirc config file I know works with the DISH 311 (It's really new) and the PVR-350 can't recieve IR from the Dish remote. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
