<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Steven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steven@niceguyscomputer.com">steven@niceguyscomputer.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am wondering about controlling multiple devices with my
serial blaster </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am wondering if I can just make a new change_chan.sh
script with the different remotes in it and just point my hd-pvr to that
change_chan script </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So that way I can control my one dishnetwork box and my hd
dishnetwork box via the same lirc_serial device?</p></div></div></blockquote><div>I do exactly that with 3 Dish SD receivers now, all set to different code sets. I have a home-made buffered serial blaster with 3 IR eyes, one in front of each receiver. </div>
<div><br></div><div>My dish receivers are set to codesets 1, 6 and 9, and have corresponding remote controls defined in my lircd.conf file. </div><div><br></div><div>As far as simultaneous recordings - no worries - only one channel change script will run at a time, so if I have 3 programs kick off at the same time, it will only do one channel change at a time, so it will change one receiver, then another, etc. (Each channel change takes between 1 and 2 seconds in my configuration.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>My channel change scripts can be found on my page here: <a href="http://jartz.gotdns.com:8008/files/lirc">http://jartz.gotdns.com:8008/files/lirc</a></div><div>(You can ignore the 'fix_audio' script that's kicked off - that's to remedy an ivtv issue I have.)</div>
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