[mythtv-users] Scientific Atlanta 4250 mce blaster

Dale Pontius DEPontius at edgehp.net
Sat Jan 31 00:26:51 UTC 2009


Al McIntosh wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Al McIntosh wrote:
> 
>> Hey,
>>  Is any one controlling a Scientific Atlanta 4250 with an mce blaster?
>> There is no lirc.conf for it in the database.
>>
>>
> I figured it out, the Scientific Atlanta Explorer_2000 in the lirc.conf
> database does work. The issue was, the IR emitter must be accurately fixed
> on the STB IR receiver, it can not be off even by a mm.
> 
Which model of SA 4250 are you working with?  I have the SA 4250C, but
there's also a SA 4250HDC, or something like that.  The latter sounds
much more sophisticated than the simple thing I have.  I had heard that
the IR control was fairly normal, but very physically ticklish to set up.

Dale Pontius


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