[mythtv-users] Re: MythTV and Sky

[Allan Stirling]

mythtv guy wrote:
> Allan,
> 
> Your solution interests me as it is what I would have
> liked to do in the first place.  You have inspired me
> to try it myself - I am driving the serial port DTR
> through a voltage divider into a CMOS inverter to give
> me a 5v inverted signal which i can feed into the box
> in place of the IR sensor signal.  In fact I am
> AND'ing the two together so either the IR sensor or
> the DTR signal can be used.
> 
> Trouble is it would appear as though the remote codes
> in my lircd.conf file are no good for this approach.
> 
> The sky box certainly doesnt recognise commands sent
> from the PC and when I monitor it on an oscillosope
> the waveform seems to be every different to that seen
> when I press the equivalent buttons on the remote.  Do
> you have a copy of the lircd.conf file you used that
> you could send me?
> 
> At first I missed off the lirc_serial options you
> mentioned and I hoped that would be the problem but
> even after adding them it still behaves the same way.
> 
> Do you have any other ideas why this wouldn't be
> working.  Having got this close I would love to be
> able to see it through now.
> 
> Thanks for any help you can give.
> 
Is this Sky or Sky Plus?

Isn't AND the wrong operation? Don't you want XOR?

Cheers,

Allan.