[mythtv-users] MythTV and Satellite

[Cyber Source]

James Dastrup wrote:
> On Monday 06 February 2006 9:12 am, Mark J. Small wrote:
>   
>>>>   No risk of having the sat box
>>>> "miss" the ir commands from the ir blaster (which rarely
>>>> happens, but is
>>>> possible).
>>>>         
>>> With my Dish 311 receiver it happens enough to annoy the heck out
>>> of my wife. I've missed
>>> enough of my own shows that I'd love to find a better way too.
>>>       
>> I used to get a lot of missed changes on my DCT2000, but I found
>> that if I used nice to raise the priority of the channel change
>> script, it happened MUCH less often.  On my Duron 800 backend,
>> there occasionally be a five second pause between digits sent from
>> my ir blaster.  In that 5 seconds, the DCT2000 would timeout and
>> assume that the slowpoke on the remote must surely be done pressing
>> buttons by now.
>>
>>     
>
> I used to have a lot of missed channel changes and recordings on my 
> Dish 311, too, but I finally solved it.  I used to get about 90% 
> accuracy, but now I get a perfect 100% of signals sent properly. I 
> can't tell you 'exactly' how I solved it, but it was a combination of 
> kernel config, lircd.conf and my channel change script.  I'm using 
> lirc-0.8.0 and this IR blaster: http://iguanaworks.net/ir/.  I don't 
> know exactly what in the kernel helped if anything, but I made a lot 
> of changes to preemption, timing and other cpu stuff. I didn't use 
> nice at all. Here's my config files, in case this will help anyone.
>
> http://www.dastrup.com/ftp/pub/linux/changechannel.sh
> http://www.dastrup.com/ftp/pub/linux/mythbe.config
> http://www.dastrup.com/ftp/pub/linux/lircd.conf
>
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>   
Thanks but the last 2 links don't work. Let me know as I would like to 
see them, Thanks, Peter

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