On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Mike Isely wrote: > Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 21:59:45 -0500 (CDT) > From: Mike Isely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Communications nexus for pvrusb2 driver <[email protected]> > To: Communications nexus for pvrusb2 driver <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [pvrusb2] hardware query for you all... > > 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.
Mine looks the same, but it says "SMK" on the bottom. Nothing on the back. http://www.hauppauge.com/images/mce_remote_with_beanbag_large.jpg >> >> 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. My MCE kit WinTV-PVR-USB2 has a working IR receiver (but it is a very old model). The built-in IR receiver on the MCE kit does NOT work with the MCE remote (RC5 vs RC6?). The built-in IR receiver works with lirc_i2c and the older WinTV-PVR-USB2 remotes (and about half of the remotes that I have laying around my home). The MCE remote works with the outboard beanbag transceiver (and it works with an Xbox360). If the info from this old driver version, pvrusb2-mci-20060121, is missing something, let me know and I can get a copy of the logs from the current driver version that I am running now. http://www.isely.net/pipermail/pvrusb2/2006-February/000505.html > > 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 > > > -- Roger J. Allen Voice: (312)-587-0690 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX: (312)-587-0691 _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
