[mythtv-users] IRBlaster Problems / Suggestions?

[Dan Wilga]

Personally, I never got a basic transmitter of the type you describe 
to work 100% reliably. The unusually high frequency of the IR carrier 
in the Dish remote (56 kHz) combined with the pickiness of the Dish 
receiver leads to too much instability.

In the end, I had to go out any buy a USB-UIRT. This device has the 
advantage that it generates the carrier frequency itself, and 
therefore is not susceptible to the Linux box being interrupted 
mid-transmission.

I'm using the lircd.conf below. I had to adjust the frequency to 
45000 to get it to work reliably, and remove the NO_HEAD_REP flag to 
get it to work at all. You must use LIRC 0.8.1 or newer, because 
older versions don't have all the correct fixes.

Note that this config assumes a remote ID # of 1. If you have a 
second receiver, you would need the config for a different remote ID. 
I can give you #2 if you need it.


begin remote

  name  DISH_1
  bits           16
  flags SPACE_ENC
  eps            30
  aeps          100

  header        350  6000
  one           324  2800
  zero          324  1700
  ptrail        324
  gap          6000
  min_repeat      4
  toggle_bit      0
  frequency    45000

      begin codes
          tv/video                 0x000000000000A3FF
          power                    0x000000000000F7FF
          menu                     0x000000000000D3FF
          page_up                  0x000000000000C3EF
          page_down                0x000000000000E3EF
          guide                    0x000000000000AFFF
          pointer_up               0x00000000000097FF
          pointer_left             0x0000000000008FFF
          pointer_right            0x0000000000009FFF
          pointer_down             0x00000000000087FF
          select                   0x000000000000BFFF
          recall                   0x00000000000093FF
          info                     0x000000000000FFFF
          view                     0x000000000000A7FF
          cancel                   0x000000000000B7FF
          sys_info                 0x0000000000006FFF
          record                   0x00000000000083FF
          1                        0x000000000000EFFF
          2                        0x000000000000EBFF
          3                        0x000000000000E7FF
          4                        0x000000000000DFFF
          5                        0x000000000000DBFF
          6                        0x000000000000D7FF
          7                        0x000000000000CFFF
          8                        0x000000000000CBFF
          9                        0x000000000000C7FF
          0                        0x000000000000BBFF
          *                        0x0000000000006BFF
          #                        0x00000000000067FF
      end codes

end remote



-- 
Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."