<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 19-Sep-06, at 11:01 PM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><DIV>On Sep 19, 2006, at 7:35 PM, PROTEK wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> Taylan Pince wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE cite="mid55523CFC-D844-420D-BD7E-FC1C89B191EA@taylanpince.com" type="cite"> <PRE wrap="">On 19-Sep-06, at 3:03 PM, PROTEK wrote:
</PRE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <PRE wrap="">I have not tried the Smart Blaster - But I will buy one even if it
cost a couple dollars to get my Digital Box working.
My time is worth something and there is ZERO good information about
using and IR Blaster.. ( they are a waist of money as far as I am
concerned )
I have been trying to get one working for over 6 months, now I have
just been waiting for another solution to come along.
Every time it comes up here it is just avoided and there is no
"good" documentation I have found that is actually relevant to
simply changing a channel on a STB from mythtv..
</PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE wrap="">Does it have to do with your particular setup? It took me only an
hour to setup the IR Blaster and I had no idea what I was doing, just
followed the directions at <A class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.eggshellskull.com/">http://www.eggshellskull.com/</A>
Cheers,
Taylan
</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE> Thanks - I looked at most of these setups and this one was by far the most well done..<BR> <PRE wrap=""><A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.eggshellskull.com">www.eggshellskull.com</A></PRE>But I am using Suse 10 that has LIRC available. From what I understand DON"t try and use it...<BR> Also the STB box I had before I took it back was a Scientific Explorer 2100 ( if I remember right ) There does not seem to be any remote codes for it..<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/scientific_atlanta/Explorer_2000">http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/scientific_atlanta/Explorer_2000</A></DIV><DIV>I found it by following the directions on <A href="http://www.eggshellskull.com">www.eggshellskull.com</A></DIV></DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> I also tried the 8300 but it goes to sleep all the time ( Hibernates ) my cable company only gives out crappy old boxes, so yes I am sure this complicating things..<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>This looks like what you need for the 8300:</DIV><DIV><A href="http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/scientific_atlanta/AT8400">http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/scientific_atlanta/AT8400</A></DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Short and long I could get LIRC compiled and working but never emitting anything useful as far as channel changing.<BR> <BR> I gave up it was just not worth all this hassle for a couple digital channels, There has to be an easier way to change channels for us that have crippled cable boxes..</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Just a quick reply to confirm this. You don't need to completely match your STB model with the remote code files on lirc.org. I am using a Scientific Explorer 1800, and using the Explorer_2000 file on the LIRC archives worked without any issues. I am sure it would work with 2100 as well.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The good thing about the directions at eggshellskull.com is that they don't require you to make a separate LIRC build. I can't say much about Suse 10 though, I followed them on FC4.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Taylan</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>