[mythtv-users] Implementing HD-PVR IR Blaster

[greg pryzby]

On 12/07/2009 09:53 AM, Bobby Schwartz wrote:
>> Wrong patch. That's for 2.6.30 and earlier. There are significant i2c
>> changes in 2.6.31 that have to be accounted for. Use...
>>
>> http://wilsonet.com/jarod/junk/hdpvr-ir/hdpvr-ir-2.6.31.patch
>> ...or...
>> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/F-12/kernel/hdpvr-ir-
>> enable.patch?view=markup
>> ...instead.
>>
>> That'd be why lirc_zilog isn't binding.
>>
>
> Well I have good news!  After a long frustrating weekend I'm up and
> blasting!!
>
> I re-patched source for the 2.6.31 kernel then downloaded the firmware.
> It took me a while to understand how lirc needed to be configured.  Then
> I finally found a lircd file for my STB.  The last piece of the puzzle
> was realizing that the zilog chip can only xmit a fixed group of
> codesets.
>
> We're a Time Warner area here.  Our STBs have generic  A, B,&  C buttons
> to manipulate on-demand and PPV menus.  It sure would be fun to pipe the
> on-demand through Myth.  I'm guessing the zilog chip can't supply that
> signal.  Can anyone confirm or deny?

I am *really* excited to hear this.

Since you JUST got this working (including patching) could you share a 
step-by-step on how to get this included, working etc.

Something like:
    Install Fedora 12
    yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers ....
    ......

My challenge is I recently moved from Debian/Ubuntu to Fedora and Fedora 
does things differently
    (I patched /usr/src/linux/ in the past... not the Fedora way)

If someone wants to share lots of stuff, I am happy to test and write it 
up, but I can see wasting lots of time trying to get this to work. So 
any pointers, lessons learned, etc is welcome. Even, hey stupid, read 
this URL and then patch (from here) and load the module....



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