[mythtv-users] IR Blasters

[John P. Mitchell]

All,

   It worked for me. I setup a dual digital cable box to dual pvr-250s
with dual home made IR emitters. The home made emitters where very easy
to build as well and only cost about $15.00. I also had to add a PCI
dual serial card to be able to control the two IR emitters, but the
below 'how to' made things pretty easy. Also, I have an idea to mod the
lirc build script so that you can pass in a substitute string for
building multiple instances of lirc. I had to copy and mod the script
by hand, but that was much easier than the alternative.

>
> use any of the do-it-yourself IR Blasters or the nice premade ones
> at that website below, along with my IR BLASTER HOWTO writeup at
> http://losdos.dyndns.org:8080/public/mythtv-info/MythTV_DISH_IR_LED_TX_via_Modified_LIRC.html
> or mirror
> http://mirror.mmdsi.com/losdos.dyndns.org/public/mythtv-info/MythTV_DISH_IR_LED_TX_via_Modified_LIRC.html
>
> summary:
> you are 30mins from getting MythTV (via LIRC) to control your external
> set top box.
>
> jds
>
>> This place:
>> http://www.irblaster.info
>> has some pre-built versions of that ir blaster in a neat little package
>> for those who aren't handy with a soldering iron or just don't want to
>> bother debugging a home-made version.
>>
>>
>> Mark Dobossy wrote:
>>
>>> I dont have a commercial IR blaster, but the simple serial LIRC
>>> homebrew blaster is very easy to make, and takes about $1.50 in parts:
>>> http://www.lirc.org/images/simple_transmitter.gif .
>>>
>>> On Nov 1, 2004, at 1:42 AM, Frutillar wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi.
>>>>
>>>> What commercial (US) IR Blaster have you installed and used with LIRC
>>>> &
>>>> MythTV?  I have Comcast digital cable and I need to have my myth box
>>>> control the cable box.
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>


Regards,
    John P. Mitchell <john at cepros.com>
    Email Sticker: My Boss is a Jewish carpenter
    http://www.GoboLinux.org | User #00010110