[mythtv-users] Comcast DTA direct channel change?

[Greg Oliver]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Scott <pickle136 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 03/25/2010 05:06 PM, Ron Garrison wrote:
>> After much reading of other people's posts I'm fairly confident that
>> the above cable should work with either the Iguana IR or the GP-IR02BK
>> mentioned by Kirk in another post.  So I went with the following:
>>
>> 2 cables from
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320446555397
>>
>> 1 IR transmitter box (actually remote with ir receiver that supports 2 emitters)
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16880121002
>
>> I believe the codes that Kirk put together should also work based on
>> what I've read elswhere.  I will let you know how it all works out
>> once I receive the items and get a chance to integrate them.
>>
>> Ron
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> As i expected my mce remote has arrived.
> Hooked up and instantly detected by lirc_mceusb Cool!
>
> dmesg | grep lirc
> [   32.241651] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
> [   32.481062] lirc_i2c: chip 0x10020 found @ 0x71 (Hauppauge PVR150)
> [   32.481073] lirc_dev: lirc_register_driver: sample_rate: 10
> [244898.140653] lirc_mceusb: Windows Media Center Edition USB IR
> Transceiver driver for LIRC 1.90
> [244898.140674] lirc_mceusb: Daniel Melander <lirc at rajidae.se>, Martin
> Blatter <martin_a_blatter at yahoo.com>, Dan Conti <dconti at acm.wwu.edu>
> [244898.406899] lirc_dev: lirc_register_driver: sample_rate: 0
> [244898.411884] lirc_mceusb[2]: Topseed Technology Corp. eHome Infrared
> Transceiver on usb2:2
>
>
> Ran this /usr/sbin/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc1
> --output=/dev/lircd1 --pidfile=/var/run/lircd1.pid
>
> ls -l /dev/ | grep lirc
> crw-rw-rw-  1 mythtv root     61,   0 2010-03-22 22:00 lirc0
> crw-rw-rw-  1 mythtv root     61,   1 2010-03-25 18:01 lirc1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root          19 2010-03-22 22:00 lircd ->
> /var/run/lirc/lircd
> srw-rw-rw-  1 root   root           0 2010-03-25 18:16 lircd1
>
> Sent this and no errors reported
> irsend --device=/dev/lircd1 SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
> irsend --device=/dev/lircd1 SEND_ONCE MotorolaDTA100-PaceDC50X KEY_9
>
> although i havnt seen the ir cable flash, its has the red casing, should
> i be seeing it flicker/flash? Also tried the camera trick, but didnt see
> anything.
>

You probably have the 0x008 version..  You'll need to compile lirc
from cvs for blasting to work..