[mythtv-users] MY/IR blaster

[Daryl McDonald]

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:19 AM, George Nassas <gnassas at mac.com> wrote:

> On 2013-07-08, at 11:20 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>
> So is the My blaster different than the IR blaster? I purchased the IR
> blaster. What is the simplest course from here?
>
>
> The MyBlaster was a product available around 2004-2005 about the size of a
> fist with half dark translucent plastic & half opaque plastic typically
> with a serial connection. I doubt you have one but if you do look at
> sourceforge.net/projects/myblaster.
>
> First step would be to figure out what you have. “IR blaster” is a pretty
> generic term so it’s like you’re saying “I have the food, how do I prepare
> it.”
>
> How do you connect this blaster to your computer? For a USB based device
> you can lsusb to get a brand name and go from there. For a device that
> attaches to a tuner card lirc has a couple of drivers so the brand is
> important.
>
> With the device type in hand you edit one of the lirc config files to tell
> it which driver to use to talk to the blaster. You also have to edit a
> second config file to tell it what sort of IR codes you want to send, the
> STB name is required here. There is probably more detailed information on
> the wiki, I haven’t checked, but the overall is: tell lirc how to talk to
> the device, tell lirc what to send, use “irsend” to transmit the actual
> codes.
>
> - George
>

I have the RS232 IR Blaster, serial port. Thanks George, you have given me
a good starting point, I'll be jumping in both feet in the nest few days,
ciao for now.

Daryl   ps Thank God my wife knows how to prepare the food!

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