<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Ajay Sharma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajayrockrock@gmail.com">ajayrockrock@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Before I chalk this up to an utter waste of money, I'd like to try debian stable. So can you let me know those versions. Also, did you have to build anything else from source besides lirc?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Replying to myself now. I installed Debian Stable (i386 in case my problems were related to 64-bit), installed the iguanaIR .deb from the site, rebuilt lirc (0.8.3), and it failed.<br><br>Grabbed the lirc from their site (0.8.6), built that, and still fails. I'm just trying to do a simple channel changing test where:<br>
<br>for I in {1..100} <br>do<br> ./change.sh 8000<br> sleep 5<br> ./change.sh 8001<br> sleep 5<br>done<br><br>And about the third change in, it will timeout, fail to connect to the USB device, cannot find the USB device, and a whole host of other weird errors.<br>
<br>I checked the usb-uirt forums and people are having problems with that device too. The commandIR device is too expensive. I think the dream of having a reliable USB ir transmitter/blaster to control a dish network box is fading away.<br>
<br>--Ajay<br></div></div>