[mythtv-users] LIRC help needed with IguanaIR and PACE DC50X

[Jarod Wilson]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:10, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 04:21,  <mythtv at derdev.com> wrote:
>>>>> ====
>>>>> My next problem is the setting in myth setup. I have a PVR250 and
>>>>> placed the channel changer script in the appropriate place, set it to
>>>>> channel 3 and tested it with Live TV.  All I got was a blank screen.
>>>>> (I have 3 other tuners that work fine and I switched to this one.)
>>>>>
>>>>> I see in the WIKI that Myth does not take channel number but freq ID.
>>>>> Is that still the case (don't know if the wiki is up to date)
>>>
>>> Anyone confirm or deny this?
>>
>> I think that's correct. But for channels coming through a cable box,
>> unless you've manually changed the channel number the station is
>> mapped to, they're going to be identical. It definitely needs it to
>> use freqid though, because if you've reassigned, say, channel 505 to
>> channel 5 in your frontend, what you need to send to the cable box to
>> get it to the intended channel is 505... But yeah, on my own setup,
>> for every channel coming through a cable box, channum == freqid.
>
> In my particular situation, I'm not going "through" a cable box. I'm
> sending some code from myth (which I don't know what) to a channel
> changer script to send a signal to an IR Transmitter.
>
> Does this change the answer?

I don't think so, but its hard to say w/o knowing what it is you're
actually trying to control. What is it that the IR transmitter is
changing channels on, if not a cable or sat box?

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com