[mythtv-users] Comcast DTA direct channel change?

[Scott]

On 03/25/2010 05:06 PM, Ron Garrison wrote:
> After much reading of other people's posts I'm fairly confident that
> the above cable should work with either the Iguana IR or the GP-IR02BK
> mentioned by Kirk in another post.  So I went with the following:
>
> 2 cables from
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320446555397
>
> 1 IR transmitter box (actually remote with ir receiver that supports 2 emitters)
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16880121002
>
> I believe the codes that Kirk put together should also work based on
> what I've read elswhere.  I will let you know how it all works out
> once I receive the items and get a chance to integrate them.
>
> Ron
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As i expected my mce remote has arrived.
Hooked up and instantly detected by lirc_mceusb Cool!

dmesg | grep lirc
[   32.241651] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
[   32.481062] lirc_i2c: chip 0x10020 found @ 0x71 (Hauppauge PVR150)
[   32.481073] lirc_dev: lirc_register_driver: sample_rate: 10
[244898.140653] lirc_mceusb: Windows Media Center Edition USB IR
Transceiver driver for LIRC 1.90
[244898.140674] lirc_mceusb: Daniel Melander <lirc at rajidae.se>, Martin
Blatter <martin_a_blatter at yahoo.com>, Dan Conti <dconti at acm.wwu.edu>
[244898.406899] lirc_dev: lirc_register_driver: sample_rate: 0
[244898.411884] lirc_mceusb[2]: Topseed Technology Corp. eHome Infrared
Transceiver on usb2:2


Ran this /usr/sbin/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc1
--output=/dev/lircd1 --pidfile=/var/run/lircd1.pid

ls -l /dev/ | grep lirc
crw-rw-rw-  1 mythtv root     61,   0 2010-03-22 22:00 lirc0
crw-rw-rw-  1 mythtv root     61,   1 2010-03-25 18:01 lirc1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root          19 2010-03-22 22:00 lircd ->
/var/run/lirc/lircd
srw-rw-rw-  1 root   root           0 2010-03-25 18:16 lircd1

Sent this and no errors reported
irsend --device=/dev/lircd1 SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
irsend --device=/dev/lircd1 SEND_ONCE MotorolaDTA100-PaceDC50X KEY_9

although i havnt seen the ir cable flash, its has the red casing, should
i be seeing it flicker/flash? Also tried the camera trick, but didnt see
anything.

Any ideas?