<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Mark Knecht <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markknecht@gmail.com">markknecht@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Brad Fuller <<a href="mailto:bradallenfuller@gmail.com">bradallenfuller@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Mark Knecht <<a href="mailto:markknecht@gmail.com">markknecht@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> I'd recommend CommandIR ( <a href="http://www.commandir.com" target="_blank">http://www.commandir.com</a> ) for IR control of<br>
>>> multiple cable boxes. I've got it controlling two right now with zero<br>
>>> issues. USB based, can control up to 4 devices - $69 right now I think.<br>
>>> LIRC compatible for send and receive. This would probably be the<br>
>>> easiest/cheapest to get you going with the existing PVR-150s. To go the<br>
>>> high-def route for non-local/QAM encrypted stuff, you'd need the Hauppauge<br>
>>> 1212, and 1 of those per HD cable box, so that would get pricey, although it<br>
>>> would be high-def, it does come with an IR controller, and would require you<br>
>>> to run SVN trunk at the moment.<br>
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>> Nice looking device. The $69 version seems to be the Mini. Is that<br>
>> what you are talking about?<br>
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>> Looks like a perfect device. Reasonable price. LIRC support. Great info.<br>
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> I looked at the instructions, and there are none for gentoo. Is it<br>
> hard to update if you're not using Mythbuntu?<br>
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> --<br>
> Brad Fuller<br>
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</div>Good question. Did you see this page?<br>
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<a href="http://lircconfig.commandir.com/lircd.conf/" target="_blank">http://lircconfig.commandir.com/lircd.conf/</a><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Those are mainly for configuring the device to RECEIVE IR input from a variety of different remote controls. If you want to control cable boxes, you can take a look at remotes.tar.bz2 linked from the main <a href="http://www.lirc.org">http://www.lirc.org</a> home page (also available here individually : <a href="http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/">http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/</a>. If you concatenate the appropriate entries together to create your /etc/lircd.conf file, you will then be able control the appropriate cable box via irsend commands. You can control which transmitter gets used by using "irsend set_transmitters N" where N is the transmitter number. These commands just all need to be put in an appropriate script that gets configured inside a MythTV called external channel change script, and you are all set.</div>
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