[mythtv-users] question/set top box

[Srinivas Gowrisanker]

OK.

I now can watch TV with coax (I need to buy an S-video cable). But can 
only use the STB remote. Mythtv cannot still control using a remote.

I am not too sure if I have an IR blaster or an IR reciever

I purchased the PVR150 in June 2006 and back then the remote worked with 
Mythtv (no STB, just wall to pvr150 back then)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815116625

The cable that attaches to the IR port on the back of the card has 2 
cables ( but none of them light up, no LEDs). The remote I have is grey and

and I bought this very recently

http://www.anywareus.com/products/misc/gpir01bk.html (I read that this 
remote works out-of-box in linux)

If I don't have an IR blaster, I will get one hook it up to the stb box. 
And what is channel change script? How do I set it up? Do I need to do 
anything else with lirc? Does the latest kernel (F11, 
2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586) have drivers?

Thanks
Jimmy

On 07/25/2009 01:04 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Saturday 25 July 2009 10:47:13 Mike Perkins wrote:
>    
>> Srinivas Gowrisanker wrote:
>>      
>>> All,
>>>
>>> THanks for the reply. Just to be clear that I understand this
>>> correctly...
>>>
>>> 1. Wall to stb to pvr150
>>> 2. have stb on ch 3
>>> 3. get IR blaster. connect IR blaster to STB or to PVR150? I have a
>>> remote that came with PVR150. Should I use that? I also have a USB IR
>>> blaster that I can use. Now will this usb IR blaster go on stb or the
>>> computer?
>>> 4. I deleted everything and restarting. Right now I have set it with
>>> schedules direct (wall/stb/pvr150 and stb is on ch3) and doing a
>>> mythfilldatabase.
>>>        
>> Please try not to top-post, it make the gremlins angry.
>>
>> You IR blaster has to be connected to your myth back end. It's blasting,
>> right? Myth will be using it to send an Infra Red signal to the stb. Your
>> USB blaster should be fine.
>>
>> The thing you plug into your PVR150 is likely a *receiver*, not a blaster.
>> It's designed so that you can use the remote which came with the PVR150 to
>> change channels on it.
>>      
>
> The late model PVR-150s had both an IR receiver and a blaster. The last time I
> played with them you had to patch lirc to use the PVR's blaster, but this may
> well have changed, it's been a couple of years.
>
> Earlier PVRs had just a receiver.
>
> It should be obvious which model you have, there is a seperate receiver and
> blaster head on the included cable with the PVR in the later model units.
>
> I gave up trying to get the PVR's blaster to work, since I acquired a
> MyBlaster, which made my life a LOT simpler.
>
> You do need to be careful with the PVR's connector for the receiver/blaster.
> There is an angle-cut on the 1/8" connector, and the plug won't go all the
> way into the connector unless the cut is oriented correctly, so the card's
> bracket does not prevent full insertion. This is poor design, no connector
> should ever be designed so that it is *possible* to insert it in an incorrect
> way.
>
> An extra conductor was added to the receiver/blaster cable connector when the
> blasters were added.
>
>
>    
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