[mythtv-users] red_eye remote woes

[Ant Daniel]

On 11/15/05, lischka <lischka at nildram.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 15 November 2005 09:47, Ant Daniel wrote:
> > On 11/15/05, lischka <lischka at nildram.co.uk> wrote:
> > > I am being seriously dumb here but please someone just put me out of
> my
> > > misery.
> > >
> > > I have a working Mythtv setup on a Pundit-R (FC3 using Jarod's guide
> > > PVR-350
> > > connected to SKY Grundig digibox)
> > >
> > > I bought a red_eye remote to allow channel changing on the SKy digibox
> > > and donwloaded the linux driver, but this has never worked.
> > >
> > > I run the command
> > > [mythtv at Showcase Softlib]$ ./red_eye /dev/ttyS0 1004 2
> > > Opening port for /dev/ttyS0 and setting RTS
> > > RTS bit set ok
> > > Writing data ("1004") now
> > > write() of bytes failed!
> > > Data Written....
> > > Sleeping for 2 seconds ....
> > > .. Start close... Finished
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong here?
> > >
> > > oh and ttyS1 gives the same.
> > >
> > > Aliks
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> > Are you running as root or as user, I used to have a similar problem
> when I
> > ran as a user as it couldn't get access to ttyS0. Try as root, if you've
> > not done so already.
> > I must have changed my permissions (or granted the program SUID) along
> the
> > way, but don't remember what I did.
> > Ant
>
> Stop Press, I found that the UART wasnt set on ttyS0 . When set to 16550 I
> could send single characters to the Digibox. And the single char commands
> like + to go up one channel work fine.
>
> However, I'm not quite home yet, when I send a channel change like 531
> only
> the first digit gets thru. If I up tha UART to 16750 or above then the
> first
> 2 chars get thru.
>
> I'll keep trying but if anyone has any ideas please say.
>
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The IR transmitter might not be quite over the digibox's IR reciever, have
you tried to move it?
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