[mythtv-users] HP MCE blasters with 2 ports: 2 blasters or 1?

[George Nassas]

On 2013-03-13, at 8:48 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:

> Are these things really two separate blasters or one blaster with
> two emitters such that everything you blast goes out both of the
> emitter wires to the two devices they are controlling?

I just set one up. It appears as one device in lirc but you can control the individual blaster ports through irsend. It has a "set_transmitters" command where you tell it which transmitter you want to use for subsequent transmissions. For example:

	irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
	irsend SEND_ONCE MCE KEY_MENU

you can also give "1 2" as transmitters arguments and both channels with transmit. Somewhere on the net I saw someone saying you couldn't use both at once but I haven't tried it.

Man irsend has all the details.

- George