[mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??

[Scott S.]

Hello,

    I've recently switch TV providers (because the company I work for is 
offering TV services now) and we have Amino AmiNet110's for set top 
boxes. I'm using a MyBlaster, the serial one from my tv store (mytvsore 
dot com). I use the MyBlaster.pl that you can download for use with the 
MyBlaster and I've found that is I run the MyBlaster.pl from the command 
prompt it changes the channel great, but when I am in Myth and it tries 
to change the channel using the same script it fails the majority of the 
time. There's typically three things could happen when it fails, one is 
it could do nothing. It's rare but it's happened a couple of times), 
another is that it misses a digit (usually at the beginning or middle of 
the channel number), and the third is that it may repeat a number (for 
instance 8 turns into 88). I'm not sure why this would happen in just 
Myth. I've used TVtime and XawTV to test the channel changing from the 
command line, and that works flawlessly, changing the channel while Myth 
is running and watching live TV also works flawlessly. It only fails 
when Myth itself tries to change  the channel with the MyBlaster.pl script.

I've played around with the timing in the MyBlaster.pl script and have 
re trained the MyBlaster with the IR codes over a dozen times, nothing 
seems to change how it acts tho, it works from the command line great 
but acts really weird when Myth goes to change the channel. The other 
thing I have done is made my own channelchange.pl and had it call the 
MyBlaster script to send the raw IR code to the MyBlaster script, that 
hasn't helped either though. Has anyone seen this? Or have any other 
ideas on a fix? Any help would be great.

Thank You,

Scott