[mythtv-users] USB dual channel IR blaster?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Tony Brummett <brummett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm starting to gather parts to put together a new backend machine.
>>> One issue I'm having is figuring out what to do for IR blasters.  I
>>> need to be able to control two identical set-top-boxes, and they only
>>> understand one set of IR codes, so I need two independently
>>> addressable IR blasters.  My current setup uses a couple of serial
>>> blasters with two instances of the related kernel modules and lirc
>>> daemons.  I'd keep using that kind of set up, except that it seems
>>> that modern-ish motherboards only have one serial port anymore.
>>>
>>> I have a usb-based MCE remote (this one:
>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16880121002)
>>> currently hooked up to a frontend.  The receiver part works great, but
>>> I can't get either of the two blaster parts to do anything.  It shows
>>> up in the syslog as a "Topseed Technology Corp. eHome Infrared
>>> Transceiver"
>>>
>>> Does anyone have an example of a usb-based transceiver where both
>>> blasters actually work?
>>
>> That one, with just a little bit of legwork, figuring out if the
>> transmit mask is simply inverted, I'd wager.
>>
>
> I tried all combinations.  commenting it out of the transmit mask
> section while using both, 1 and 2 for the transmitter, etc several
> times.  I hope I'm not that incompetent (but I may be)  :-/
>
> I'll gladly confess to being a dumbass if it works though!

Damn, is this the exact same one you've got?... So there must be
something else going on... Perhaps it needs a different init sequence,
a la the pinacle transceivers... Definitely interested in poking at
one of these ones. :)

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com