[mythtv-users] Re: Dish DVR 510 (Robert Denier)

[jds]

hi robert,
you took all the right steps by wiring a visible LED in parallel with
the IR LED.  this is a very important debugging step, which is why i
put it in the IR blaster howto with exclamation points around it.  :*)

the fact that the LED was blinking lets you know the basic infrastructure
is working, and then you can concentrate of figuring out what the right
ledxmit.conf needs to be.

regards and good luck with the rest of your myth install,
jds


Robert Denier writes:
> When I read the instructions below I thought that the receiver they were
> written for was quite different than mine so I chose the 301's file.
> After simply trying the provided /etc/ledxmitd.conf things work.  (I
> haven't got it working in myth or anything yet, but I don't anticipate
> any more problems.)  I need to clean up my circuit and replace the
> visible led with a signal diode and a more appropriate resistor of course.
>
> Robert Denier wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have lirc changing channels on one of these?  I think I
>> followed the instructions
>>
>> http://losdos.dyndns.org:8080/public/mythtv-info/MythTV_DISH_IR_LED_TX_via_Modified_LIRC.html
>>
>>
>> and entered the information for a dish 301, which was the closest I
>> could find.
>> I used 3 4.7k resitors in parallel combined with an ordinary green led
>> and a photodiode that was allready on a cable from some remote sending
>> thing.
>>
>> These were just the parts I had here.  At any rate you have about 1.6k
>> of resistance + the normal led (which takes the place of the signal
>> diode) and the ir led.  The led blinks as expected, but no channels
>> get changed..  (Since the visible led is blinking the ir led should be
>> as well, just not in the visible spectrum.)
>>
>> I was just wondering if anyone had gotten this working.  Another
>> option is the myblaster device, but I'm not sure that will work with
>> this, although it does have about 6 or so dish model codes.
>>
>> -Robert