[mythtv-users] Best deal on premade lirc receivers?

[Brian Long]

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 12:46 -0400, MythTV wrote:
> I just picked up one from here:
> 
> http://www.irblaster.info
> 
> Works great and $15 shipped.
> 
> - Todd

I need to control two separate digital-cable boxes with one serial or
USB connection.  Most new motherboards only have one serial connection.

Also, I found out the following from the usb-uirt support yesterday:
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 - The USB-UIRT can be wired to run two separate 'channels' from its
external emitter jack.
 - To do this, you must custom-wire a stereo plug to two emitters or buy
a splitter which separates our the L and R channels to two mono jacks
which can then be used with any off-the-shelf emitter.
 - The current lirc patch (written by another user) does not support
this 'zone' functionality
 - Work is underway for a USB-UIRT specific Lirc daemon which will
support this functionality.
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It sounds like I can use the USB-UIRT today for one cable box and in the
future I can add the second cable box when lirc is updated to support
the L/R zone split.  There is also the InnovationOne CommandIR product
that is current in beta and supports 4 separate emitters.  It's also
supported by lirc today
(http://www.innovationone.ca/products/commandir/).

/Brian/
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