[mythtv-users] DCT700 IR Blaster

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:05:37 -0400, you wrote:

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>Copious kudos Mr. Worthington, with your help I think I've graduated from a
>newbie level -10 to newbie level -9. Most of the problems I had stemmed
>from creating a directory, when the wiki said create a file, secondly
>creating it outside the terminal caused the ownership issue. DCT700.conf is
>now only a file inside /etc/lirc and is owned by root, and even though I
>didn't see any light emitting from the IR blaster on the initial tests (I
>didn't see error messages either), with one hand holding the emitter on the
>STB and the other hitting "enter" for a preloaded channel change command,
>shazam! it did it! Again many thanks Stephen. More research and more
>tweaking in my immediate future, but I'm over what seemed a major hurdle 24
>hours ago.
>
>Daryl

We were all newbies once - I am just glad your problem was one of the
simple ones to fix.