Hi,<br>
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Yeah I tried 0863 and I got unknown.<br>
Even I tried irrecord ,but it failed for me.<br>
I will try building homebrew serial port IR transmitter and hope it may work.<br>
Or else ar brain suggested I have to go for "smart" blaster.<br>
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Thanks for your information regarding and any further suggestions are welcome regarding this topic!<br>
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n 9/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Sep 18, 2006, at 12:00 PM, Nick wrote:<br><br>> On 18/09/06, Ramanraj Vamsi <<a href="mailto:ramanrajvamsi@gmail.com">ramanrajvamsi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> Hi Nick,<br>>> But I am using a Hauppauge IR blaster Remote that came with the
<br>>> card.Does<br>>> this mean that I have to use a DVB with a known code set(currently<br>>> I am<br>>> using Zenega CD-1004S for which I have n't come across the code<br>>> set number<br>
>> in any link on that blog as well as the link specified in previous<br>>> thread)?<br>>><br>>> How can I make my IR Blaster control my STB?<br>>><br>>> Any suggestions will be highly appreciated!
<br>><br>> If you have an unused serial port on your computer, the easiest way to<br>> control your STB may well be to build/buy a serial port IR blaster<br>> (this is what I did).<br>><br>> Your PVR-150 blaster is limited in the IR codes it can use, and it
<br>> would appear from your results that the blaster cannot emit codes that<br>> will control your particular STB (did you try the 0863 code suggested<br>> by Rick earlier?). Therefore, you need to find another way of
<br>> controlling it - and from experience the best way I have found is to<br>> use a homebrew serial port IR transmitter (schematics on <a href="http://lirc.org">lirc.org</a>).<br>> Some STBs let you control them using a direct serial cable connection
<br>> but you must know for sure whether this is possible with your STB.<br>><br>> However, in order to be able to use \any\ transmitter with your STB,<br>> you need to know which IR codes it uses. If the codes are not
<br>> available from the <a href="http://lirc.org">lirc.org</a> site, I would use a serial port IR<br>> receiver to record the STB remote's codes directly. However, as you<br>> are using the PVR-150 IR receiver - you may well have problems
<br>> recording the remote, as Hauppauge IR receivers are limited to<br>> receiving RC-5 based IR signals. Have you tried using irrecord to<br>> record the STB's remote control?<br>><br>> It probably appears that there is no end in sight yet - I think that
<br>> of all the things that could cause problems for you, you have<br>> experienced nearly all of them so far. From my experience using IR<br>> with external STBs and remote controls, the things that I have proven
<br>> to work are serial IR receivers and transmitters.<br>><br><br>The serial IR blasters fall into two categories: The "dumb" ones that<br>are pretty much just LED drivers and depend on LIRC to generate all
<br>of the timing and codes etc., and the "smart" ones like the MyBlaster<br>that just need to be fed some basic info, like what code set and what<br>instruction, via the serial port. The latter can usually "learn" from
<br>a remote transmitter as well as a pre-set list.<br><br>Although the "smart" blasters cost a few dollars more, they are much<br>easier (IMHO) to get going and require a lot less smarts from the<br>control program, of course with that comes a lack of flexibility to
<br>some extent.<br><br>I played around with homebrew blasters and probably spent more on<br>soldering supplies than anything else. Thanks to William Munson's<br>very flexible perl script I was controlling my satellite receiver 10
<br>minutes after taking a MyBlaster out of the box.<br><br>So you can spend around $15 and several hours getting it to work, or<br>spend $45 and 15 minutes, just depends on what your resource<br>availability is I guess.<br>
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