[mythtv-users] IR blaster missing channel changes - Scientific Atlanta 3250

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:21 AM, John H <arizonamythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't seem to get the blaster to change the channel consistently.
> Sometimes it works and sometimes it just misses a digit or two which
> naturally makes me miss a show. I've messed around with the delay
> making it fast and slower and I still end up with channel change
> issues. I tried blasting "select" before I did the change channel as
> my issue has a bit of a feel of the STB going into a sleep mode since
> it feels like the first digit comes up slow and then the rest of the
> digits really come up fast (current sleep is 0.9 sec in the
> change_chan script). I also thought it was a priority issue so I added
> "nice" to the irsend change channel command to see if I could increase
> it's priority. This didn't help as well. Thought about adding nice to
> lirc but I haven't tried this yet. I posted about this before and I
> thought I would just go firewire but when I went to hook it up the box
> doesn't have any firewire port and it isn't HD so I couldn't force the
> cable company to give me one with firewire.
>
> Any suggestions?

Try adding a 'min_repeat X' where X is something between 2 and about 5
or 6 in your lircd.conf for the blaster remote.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com