[mythtv-users] LircChannelChanger / HD Channels - Going to wrong channel

[Philip Isaacs]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 04/02/2014 04:00 PM, Philip Isaacs wrote:
> > I know when I created the STB's conf file I had a ton of trouble. The
> > Cable Box is a Cisco RNG150N and it seems like every lircd.conf that I
> > found online that claim to work with this box didn't, so I ended up
> > recording my own using the irrecord command. But to get it to take I had
> > to force it (command line switch -f) to use the raw mode. Perhaps this
> > is the problem. The raw commands are messing things up.
> >
> > Is that possible?
>
> Yes it is, and it can take a bit of fiddling to get that to work
> reliably. I had to do the same (i.e. use raw mode), and it's taken me
> many months of tweaking to get right.
>
> I've only ever done this once (i.e. with my STB which is not a Cisco),
> but the two things I've done that made the most difference to
> reliability were:
>
> - keep it as simple as possible. Include only one iteration of the raw
> codes in your config file.
>
> - use a reasonable interdigit time. Pick something that is close to what
> a human could achieve when using the remote, but not too long so as to
> avoid that the STB thinks you're done sending digits. I've set mine to
> 350ms:
>
> LircChannelChanger --remote=digibox --transmitter=1 --delay=0.350
> --digitprefix=Num $1
>
>
> HTH, Jan
>
>
Wow. Lots of good information here. I agree there seems to be an infinite
amount of combinations for this script. I'll try out some more. That being
said Gary's explanation above sounds little like what I'm experiencing. The
IR Blasting is moving so fast that the STB hasn't caught up with it.

Floyd
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