[mythtv-users] Re: Echostar, lirc & actisys 200l

Frank Linhares frank at diskshop.ca
Thu Jan 22 18:56:37 EST 2004


Does anyone know how to get this patch to work with 0.7.0pre2 ?

frank.linhares
frank at diskshop.ca

On 22-Jan-04, at 3:35 PM, Dan Berger wrote:

> Try the attached patch, which was sent to me personally by a lirc 
> developer.
> It will let you use the actisys at 57k instead of 38k.
>
> Make sure you apply it to lirc 0.6.6, recompile lirc, and try again
>
> If that doesn't work for you with the actisys, get a new transmitter. 
> Thats
> ultimately what I had to do.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jason Miller
>> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:05 PM
>> To: Discussion about mythtv
>> Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: Echostar, lirc & actisys 200l
>>
>> On 21/01/04 00:04 -0500, Frank Linhares wrote:
>>> Here I go.
>>>
>>> I've spent the entire day reading up on getting lirc to work with my
>>> echostar dp301 receiver, and I've just come short of whipping
>>> everything against the wall.
>>>
>>> I've tried the scripts in the remotes package, the jvc_send and
>>> jvc_raw and still no go.  The best I can get is the 200l can
>> send the
>>> numbers 1 & 4, when it feels like it.
>>>
>>> Has anyone yet successfully been able to get the actisys 200l to
>>> change the channels on an echostar box ?  And if so, can you please
>>> share in the secret on how to go about doing so.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> frank.linhares
>>
>> IIRC, the Actisys is a fixed frequency transmitter which can't
>> handle the very picky protocol the Echostar Receivers use.
>>
>>
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