[mythtv-users] mceusb2 transmit problems
Michael Thome
mthome at bbn.com
Fri Mar 9 14:38:18 UTC 2007
No - separate issue - the MCE remote(s) that you point at are not
generally learning remotes. But the mce USB transceiver that comes with
some of the cards (e.g. the Haup pvr-150 MCE *kit* see the USB IR
Receiver in the following image:
http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/productimage/15-116-631-04.JPG )
is a pretty functional multi-channel transmitter as well as receiver.
On re-reading, the original message, I'm not sure if Oliver has this
thing or a receiver-only - you can tell by looking at the back of the
USB receiver module - if it has two sockets (labeled "1" and "2"), then
you are good to go, otherwise, I couldn't say. BTW - I have no idea if
the module itself has a transmitter in it - I use the separate LED
emitter that came with my kit (see image above).
Mitch Gore wrote:
> I didn't know the blaster worked on the MCE remote. I have hauppauge
> MCE remote. Will it work on that model? I kind of looks like the one
> on the link but it doesn't have the colored buttons on the bottom.
>
> Mitchell
>
> On 3/8/07, *Michael Thome* <mthome at bbn.com <mailto:mthome at bbn.com>>
> wrote:
>
> Had this problem too. Main thing is to change your set channel script
> to call "irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1" (assuming your blaster is plugged
> into the 1 port) before sending the digits. The other gotcha that is
> apparently rare, but took me more than a week to figure out, is
> that the
> mceusb2 blaster is very bright - too bright for some receivers. I
> need
> to attenuate the blaster LED in order to change channels successfully
> once everything was installed.
>
> Cheers,
> mik
>
> Oliver Brown wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a HVR-1300 which came with the MCE USB IR
> receiver/blaster (the
> > newest one). The receiving part works fine but I can't get the
> blaster
> > part to work (with Sky in the UK incidentally). I'm using
> MythDora 3.2
> > which has a version of lirc_mceusb2 which the wiki says should work
> > ( http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MCE_Remote).
> >
> > If I use irw, button presses from both remotes (the Hauppauge
> one and
> > the Sky one) are correctly recognised. irsend though doesn't do
> > anything - it doesn't even make the red light on the blaster flash.
> >
> > Is there some extra step I need to take to enable transmitting? Most
> > things I've read (including the wiki page) focus on setting up
> > receiving and then imply that transmitting will just work...
> >
>
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