[mythtv-users] External Tuner (SA1850) and Actisys-200L?

[David Cheng]

Hi,

Has anyone managed to get an Actisys 200L to work with a Scientific 
Atlanta Explorer 1850 cable box?  Or even a 4200?  I hear that they all 
use the same IR codes.

I've followed the instructions at 
http://www.iwamble.net/IRBlaster_Howto.txt.  Everything went fine and 
the actisys is sending out pulses when I call change_channel.csh.  My 
cablebox seems to ignore it.

I'm running gentoo 2.6.9, the actisys is plugged into com1 serial port.  
I'm using the Explorer_2000 from lirc.org for my remote.  When I run 
irw, it interprets my remote buttons correctly.

Here's the output of dmesg when I call 'modprobe remote_sir'
=========
remote_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 72
remote_dev: remote_register_plugin:sample_rate: 0
remote_sir: I/O port 0x03f8, IRQ 4.
enable_irq(4) unbalanced from f8bafd32
remote_sir: Installed.

Here's my /etc/modules.conf
=========
### modules-update: start processing /etc/modules.d/lirc-remote
alias char-major-72 remote_sir
below remote_sir remote_dev
options remote_sir irq=4 io=0x3f8
### modules-update: end processing /etc/modules.d/lirc-remote

Here's the output from remoted (the modified lircd) when I call 
change_channel.csh 32:
=========
Jan 17 18:52:14 penguin remoted 0.7.0pre8: accepted new client on 
/dev/remoted
Jan 17 18:52:14 penguin remoted 0.7.0pre8: removed client
Jan 17 18:52:15 penguin remoted 0.7.0pre8: accepted new client on 
/dev/remoted
Jan 17 18:52:15 penguin remoted 0.7.0pre8: removed client
Jan 17 18:52:16 penguin remoted 0.7.0pre8: accepted new client on 
/dev/remoted
Jan 17 18:52:16 penguin remoted 0.7.0pre8: removed client