On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Mark Goldberg wrote: > The seperate IR Receiver is about a 2" X 2" X1/2" box with a usb > connector on the back and two jacks for IR blasters. It came with one > IR blaster on a long wire. It says TSES-IR01 > on the back. Besides being connected to usb also, it does not connect > to the pvrusb at all. It also came with a mce remote with the green > windows button in the middle. > > I followed the instructions in the mythtv mce remote wiki and links from > there: > > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MCE_Remote > > Mark
Yes, I was suspecting sure that the MCE kit variant with the external IR blaster also had its IR receiver in that same module. Thus there either can't be an IR receiver at all in the PVR USB2 device or it is there but has somehow been disabled. This is what I'm trying to get at. This person's device doesn't appear to have working IR reception, which suggests it is an MCE kit device. However he opened it up and it does have the photodiode and the IR receiver chip. And what's more, the IR receiver chip is seen by the IR chip-level drivers in Linux. Yet still, the remote he got with it more closely resembles the MCE kit remote rather than the "normal" remote. He's got a 29xxx model so it can't be any of the newer MCE kit devices where the IR blaster is included in the device itself. So we're just trying to figure out if the IR isn't working because it's either broken or it if really is an MCE kit device. It would be interesting to know for example if the known MCE kit variants have something unique in their model string. It would be even more useful to know if those devices happened to still have a vestigal IR circuit that's been deactivated. But no, I'm not asking anyone to open their device and find out. But if you do, you can compare the guts with some photos of a 29xxx device here: http://www.isely.net/gallery2/v/PVR+Hardware/PVRUSB2+2/ (If you click on the "full res" version of the mainboard photo there's enough detail to see every last via on the board. I created those photos early on when I started working on this driver.) Anyway, anything you can add would be useful. The use in question is not currently subscribed to this list; I've been helping him in IRC. But I've also asked him to watch the mail archives in case something jumps out at him. -Mike -- | Mike Isely | PGP fingerprint Spammers Die!! | | 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 | isely @ pobox (dot) com | 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 | | _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
