<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dewey Smolka</b> <<a href="mailto:dsmolka@gmail.com">dsmolka@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
><br>> You can use an IR Blaster driven by LIRC, or you can use the<br>> "MyBlaster" device which is controlled by a Perl script that does not<br>> require LIRC.<br>><br><snip><br>> Both methods work. The former is a little cheaper but more trouble to
<br>> get set up, the latter approach costs a little more ($50US) but is<br>> extremely simply to set up.<br>><br><br>I'm going to agree with Brian here. Last year I spent about a week<br>wrestling with lirc to get a PVR-250 IR reciever and a serial IR
<br>blaster working together at the same time. I was never able to get<br>both to work reliably and stay working.<br><br>Maybe there are people more clever and more experienced than me who<br>can do this easily, but it had me stumped and frustrated.
<br><br>So I bought the MyBlaster device, had it up and running within 15<br>minutes of it arriving at my door, and haven't had to touch it or<br>think about it since. It's been up and running for nearly a year, and
<br>I've had maybe five cases where it failed to properly change the<br>channel (out of thousands of channel changes). Even when I managed to<br>coax some output from my serial lirc blaster, the failure rate was<br>significant enough to be worrying -- I estimated at the time that it
<br>failed 10 to 20 percent of the time, and that was when it was working.<br><br>As always YMMV, but the MyBlaster is $50 well spent.</blockquote><div><br>Put me in the same boat as Dewey. I also use a MyBlaster to control my 2 DirecTV receivers. Very easy to set up and very reliable. I also tried wrestling with LIRC and gave up.
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