[mythtv-users] Re: Echostar, lirc & actisys 200l

[Frank Linhares]

Tried that, no good.  I think I just might build one of the low cost  
transmitors that are on lirc.org

frank.linhares
frank at diskshop.ca

On 22-Jan-04, at 5:37 PM, Jason Miller wrote:

> On 22/01/04 17:05 -0500, Michael J. Sherman wrote:
>>
>>> I've spent the entire day reading up on getting lirc to
>>> work with my echostar dp301 receiver, and I've just come
>>> short of whipping everything against the wall.
>>
>> I have this same DISH receiver.  I attempted to use an ActiSys, but  
>> the
>> frequency problem forced me to use a home-built IR transmitter.  I  
>> would
>> love to get the actisys working, however, because my home-built  
>> receiver
>> seems to have issues about once every tenth channel change.  In those
>> few cases instead of sending "102", it'll just send "12", or sometimes
>> it'll skip the first digit.   It works, but only 90% of the time,  
>> which
>> doesn't help the WAF.
>>
>> So right now I use jvc_send with a home-built IR (the simple one on  
>> the
>> lirc page).
>
> Have you tried jvc_raw.c to build yourself a custom config file?  You  
> can see
> the discussion here (
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=61605; 
> search_string=jvc_raw.c;guest=2110454&t=search_engine#61605
> ).  Sounds like you just need to tweak the timing values a little bit  
> to
> match up with your hardware.
>
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