[mythtv-users] thoughts on the redremote ir sender

[Mike]

What kind of IR LED did you use?  How much current are you it driving 
with?  Did you look at the info here on raising the priority of the thread:
http://losdos.dyndns.org:8080/public/mythtv-info/MythTV_DISH_IR_LED_TX_via_Modified_LIRC.html


You might also want to consider one of these (should work with the same 
sw config you have now)
http://www.irblaster.info



garydawes at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> Is anybody in the UK have a cable (telewest / NTL) box, specifically a
> scientific atlanta 4200DVB and one of these red remote serial irsenders.
> 
> The Wife in her infinite wisdom decided to dump Sky in favour of cable.
> 
> I have built an ir sender based on the simple transmitter circuit
> described on the lirc site, and am driving it with the lirc_serial driver
> and lirc 0.8.0. The channel changing, is really unreliable with the cable
> box not registering some of the sent commands, although it does work
> correctly occasionally.
> 
> Would one of these redeyes be the answer to my prayers, or should I
> persevere with lirc, and if the latter has anybody got any tips on
> improving the reliability.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Gary
> 
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