Good Afternoon all!<br><br>In the past few days I have upgraded from Mythdora 5 to Mythdora 10.21.<br><br>For those that don't follow Mythdora, that is Fedora 10 and Mythtv .21. However those appear to be working properly.<br>
<br>My issue seems to be with LIRC. (1 other person has confirmed that they are experiencing a similar issue)<br><br>What I am using:<br>Serial IR Blaster from <a href="http://www.irblaster.info" target="_blank">www.irblaster.info</a><br>
DishNetwork 301 STB<br><br>] $ yum info lirc<br>Installed Packages<br>Name : lirc<br>Arch : i386<br>Version : 0.8.4a<br>Release : 2.fc10<br>Size : 808 k<br>Repo : installed<br><br><br>I install Mythdora first as an inplace upgrade to Mythdora 5 the upgrade went clean, however the IR Blaster wouldn't properly control the STB even though all the settings and config was the same as before the upgrade. (The LED goes off, however the STB doesn't respond, but the STB works with the original remote). I have a 2nd known good serial IR blaster and it does the same thing, I can verify it is throwing out IR, but the STB doesn't respond.<br>
<br>So last night I formatted the HDDs and installed a fresh install of Mythdora 10.21. I get all the config done and the SAME issue persists.<br><br>Running the Change_Chan.sh script and irsend directly reports no errors and makes the IR blaster flash like it normally does, but again the STB doesn't respond.<br>
<br>I have verified that everything it setup properly according the following URL that I have used many times in the past: <a href="http://www.eggshellskull.com/lirc/blaster/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.eggshellskull.com/lirc/blaster/index.php</a><br>
<br>I am using the lirc.conf from <a href="http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/echostar/SAT_301" target="_blank">http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/echostar/SAT_301</a> which has worked for the past 4 years for me with the same STB I have now. So before the upgrade, it worked perfectly, never missed, now after the upgrade, the STB won't respond at all.<br>
<br>Asking on the Mythdora forums I had the following responce which may provide more info:<br><br><br>******<br>I recently installed Mythdora 10.21 to a separate partition on an
existing Fedora 8 mythtv frontend/backend system that has been working
for many moons now. I'm using the gray Hogpoop i2c remote (pvr 350
card), and pchdtv3000 card. The ir blaster changes channels on a
SA3250HD cable box. My problem is the same as yours the irblaster
flashes but only (very) rarely passes digits to the SA3250HD. When it
does it is not complete. The Fedora 8 install works flawlessly. Both
LIRC versions are the same 0.8.4a. I have spent countless hours on this
problem and conclude there is some difference in the lirc_serial
driver. I have tried trading drivers (lirc_serial.ko) but get errors on
"module is not not formated right or something". I've tried to
recompile a driver from the lirc source....what a nightmare. I might
have some luck with that in a hundred years or so, but I gave up. All
the lircd.conf, channel change scripts, module loading options
(softcarrier, type, i/o address, irq) are the same. I know this doesn't
help your problem but maybe someone can recognize something I've
overlooked.<br><br>****<br><br>The WAF is falling sharply if I can't change it from The Discovery Channel. (although I wouldn't mind watching TDC all day)<br><br>I can provide any further information that you would like, but does anyone have ANY clue what to look at? <br>
<br>Thanks for ANY hints or pointers on what to check next.<br><br>Thanks again,<br>Jason<br><br><br><br><br>