[mythtv-users] Where to buy CommandIR ?

Ben Eisemann ben at locojeeper.com
Thu Jul 29 13:50:00 UTC 2010


Yep, yep and yep.

One emitter worked just swimmingly...

then I enabled the other emiter with a set_transmitter (3 iirc) statement at
the top of a copy of the channel change script.  Then it would change
channels on both units.  I tried all sorts of means of electrical tape and
card board and putting them on separate sides of the same wall to try to
isolate and remove the possibility of IR interference... and the problem
continued.

I would love to get that solution working, as my newer Asus board was in
limited supply when it came to serial ports (hence my need to add the PCIe
card just to get a second serial port).  But I spent a good two or three
weeks trying all sorts of different ways of configuring software and
hardware and the dang IguanaIR still kept tripping both DTA's.

God Bless,

Ben T. Eisemann
beisemann at gmail.com

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of
its strength.—Charles Spurgeon


On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:17 AM, <mythtv at derdev.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:27:55 -0400, Ben Eisemann <ben at locojeeper.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I am on round three of trying to get my Comcast DTA's to channel change
> > with
> > my backend.
> >
> > I tried IguanaIR, one channel worked fine but the second channel would
> > cause
> > both channels to fire IR commands.
> >
> > I then put in a 4 port PCIe Serial card with two IR Blasters... but I
> can
> > get two seperate instances of lirc_serial.
> >
> > So, my third option was to buy a CommandIR ... but their website shows
> that
> > they are out of stock until v3 comes out which was in October 2009?
> >
> > Any ideas where I can get one or something else that will fit the bill?
> >
> > God Bless,
> >
> > Ben T. Eisemann
> > beisemann at gmail.com
>
> IguanaIR should work great with your Comcast DTAs
>
> You're saying that you were able to get the first emitter to change
> channels correctly?
> You're saying that requests to the second emitter would change channels on
> box DTAs to the same channel at the same time?
>
> Did you isolate the emitters to make sure the emitter signals aren't
> scattering?
> does your channel change script for the second emitter contain something
> like
>   irsend set_transmitters 2
> so that you are not sending the command through all emitters?
>
>
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