[mythtv-users] LIRC troubles with sa3250hd remote control

[Daniel Arfsten]

I can't for the life of me get this damn Contec Synergy V model number 
RT-U62CP-1.17 remote to work with irw or irrecord? I have a PVR-350 
reciever. It works fine with the PVR-350 remote (grey one) Heck I even setup 
a additional lircd named ledxmit to transmit (ir blast) my sa3250hd STB but 
the ledxmitd.conf I am using isn't working. I have an ir blaster from 
irblaster.info. It's a serial ir blaster. I know I have the ir blasting 
setup (hardware and lirc wise) correctly because I can see the tip of the 
blaster flash red whenever I send a channel change command from the command 
line. The STB just does nothing. I have tried holding the ir blaster away 
from the STB ir receiver (maybe it's too strong of signal?) but that doesn't 
work. I have moved it around various location on the front of the STB, that 
doesn't work. PLEASE HELP.

My info is this:
Mthtv 20.2 package from Ubuntu Feisty Fawn repositories, Version: 
0.20.2-0ubuntu0.7.04.1
LIRC package from Feisty Fawn, Version: 0.8.1+cvs20070310-0ubuntu2 (pvr350 
receiving, /dev/lirc0)
LIRC version compiled as ledxmit is version: lirc-0.8.2 (ir blasting from 
serial port, /dev/ledxmit)

lsmod | grep lir
lirc_i2c               11268  2
lirc_dev               15988  1 lirc_i2c
i2c_core               22656  13 
cx88xx,bttv,lirc_i2c,nvidia,i2c_ec,msp3400,saa7127,saa7115,tuner,ivtv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,i2c_viapro

lsmod | grep serial
ledxmit_serial         15748  0
ledxmit_dev            16244  1 ledxmit_serial

dmesg | grep ledxmit shows:
[   74.520092] ledxmit_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 72
[   75.077726] ledxmit_serial: auto-detected active high receiver
[   75.077732] ledxmit_dev: ledxmit_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0

channel change command:
cat /usr/local/bin/channel_ch.sh
#!/bin/sh
REMOTE_NAME=SA2000 #note, ensure that the REMOTE_NAME is the same as what 
you have in your /etc/ledxmitd.conf file
for digit in $(echo $1 | sed -e 's/./& /g'); do
/usr/local/lirc-ledxmit/bin/ledxmit-irsend SEND_ONCE $REMOTE_NAME $digit
sleep 0.4  # note, you may have to tweak the interdigit delay up a bit, 
depending on your DISH receiver model
done

/etc/ledxmitd./conf file is here to save the mailing list: 
http://www.pastebin.org/4178

when I stop lircd that starts when I start my machine for the pvr-350, and I 
run irrecord, this is what it returns when I "hold any button" on my stupid 
remote I got with my STB.
irrecord: gap not found, can't continue

what does this mean? I have spent over 40 hours trying to get ANY form of 
channel changing working with this stupid sa3250hd box, firewire doesn't 
work so I am trying lirc and serial ir blaster with obviously no success. I 
have even tried commenting out the frequency within the ledxmitd.conf 
because that's what the guy said to do to get his sa3200 to work. that 
didn't work. Please help please. I would probably pay someone at this point 
to just be able to have mythtv control my STB so that I can record HBO over 
s-video.

Daniel