[mythtv-users] LIRC troubles with sa3250hd remote control

[Daniel Arfsten]

LIRC troubles with sa3250hd remote
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Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 07:01:24 -0500
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LIRC troubles with sa3250hd remote control
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

UPDATE BELOW

FINALLY GOT IT WORKING. It was the ledxmitd.conf that wasn't correct. The 
Scientific Atlanta 2000 config within sourceforge lirc remotes wasn't 
working but the SAE8000 does. This was stored for some reason under the name 
AT8400 within the Scientific Atlanta, which after you click on that one, the 
name of the remote within there is a SAE8000. Which is the Scientific 
Atlanta 8000 series STB's, which are very similar to the SA 3250HD STB's I 
own . Then I just added a "select" for the channel changing to happen right 
away. So my channel change command is this:

#!/bin/sh
REMOTE_NAME=SAE8000 #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
/usr/local/lirc-ledxmit/bin/ledxmit-irsend SEND_ONCE $REMOTE_NAME select


Daniel