Hello All,<br><br>I am using a serial IR blaster with MythDora 5.0. I am using the blaster to control a Dish Network 301 STB which is recorded by a PVR-250.<br><br>Everything has been going great for a couple of years but after a reboot of my dedicated backend a couple of weeks ago the blaster seems to have stopped working with no apparent reason. (the STB still responds to the Dishnetwork remote just fine). I purchased the blaster from IRBlaster.info a couple of years ago and it includes a red led that goes off when it blasts for a visual indication of it working. The red LED no longer goes off either when it should be blasting.<br>
<br>The backend logs report no errors when changing channels for a recording and if I manually run the change_chan.sh script, no errors are reported.<br><br>I also try running "irsend --device=/dev/lircd 3100 1" and it doesn't report any errors, however nothing appears to be blasted either. (the STB doesn't respond and I see no Red LED)<br>
<br>So thinking that the blaster may have gone out for some reason, I ordered a new serial ir blaster from IRBlaster.info however the new one has the same exact problem.<br><br><span>I am not sure what else to try.<br><br>
I see there is a newer version of lirc out (0.8.4) but I wasn't sure if upgrading would fix it or not.<br><br>Anyone have any ideas on what else to check to try to resolve the issue?<br><br>I guess my serial port on the motherboard could have just gone bad. Does anyone know if a USB to Serial adapter will work with lirc and a blaster?<br>
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<br>Some info:<br><br>*****************************************************<br>[mythtv@mythtv ~]$ lsmod | grep lirc<br>lirc_serial 16020 0<br>lirc_dev 15044 1 lirc_serial<br>
<br>******************************************************<br><br>******************************************************<br></span><span>[mythtv@mythtv ~]$ yum info lirc<br>Installed Packages:<br>Name : lirc<br>
Arch : i386<br>Version: 0.8.3<br>Release: 74_cvs200080314.fc8<br>Size: 1.5M<br>Repo: installed<br><br>*******************************************************<br></span><span><br></span><span>*******************************************************</span><br>
<span>[mythtv@mythtv ~]$ vi </span>/etc/rc.d/rc.local<br><br>
#!/bin/bash<br><br># This file allows you to execute things at the end of boot<br><br>touch /var/lock/subsys/local<br>#IRBlaster<br>setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none<br>/sbin/modprobe lirc_serial type=0 irq=4 io=0x3f8 softcarrier=1<br>
/usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0 --output=/dev/lircd<br>/usr/sbin/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc1 --output=/dev/lircd1 --pidfile=/var/run/lircd1.pid<br><br>***********************************************************<br>
<br>I have tried both COM1 and COM2 in the rc.local and I again get the same results, nothing appears to be blasted, but no errors.<br><br>In all my testing I have never once gotten an error from my Mythtv box, either in logs or with me manually running commands.<br>
<br>I am also open to just getting a new USB Blaster if that is an easy way to solve this, can anyone recommend one?<br><br>Thanks for any help you can provide.<br><br>Jason Sharpe<br><br><span><br></span>