[mythtv-users] USB IR Blaster: close but no cigar

[Jarod Wilson]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 15:30 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>
>> No, the most interesting part is that there isn't a single case of
>> 'outbound data' in your output. So either you've filtered that output
>> and somehow excluded it
>
> I didn't:
>
> [root at confusion lirc]# dmesg | fgrep outbound
> lirc_mceusb: acceptable outbound endpoint found

Yeah, I figured it was unlikely.

>>  or something is going very wrong either in
>> the driver or the device, causing us to never send any outbound data.
>
> So am I just stuck now? Do I have bad hardware, or is there something
> about this particular version of the device that doesn't work with the
> driver (in either case maybe I should order an Iguanaworks IR blaster?)
> Or is there something further I can do to debug this?

I'd be curious to see if it behaves differently with a different
machine (or more specifically, a different usb controller). I doubt if
there's a different version of the same hardware that works
differently, and for the outbound packet transfers to fail, we're
talking a really low-level failure, outbound packet data should be
showing up from the driver's probe function, which leads me to think
maybe it doesn't like the usb controller its hooked into. Worst-case,
send it my way and I can investigate. :)


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com