[mythtv-users] MCEUSB blasting

[Jarod Wilson]

On Mar 11, 2011, at 2:21 PM, John Drescher wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> Last week I purchased the following mceusb remote with irblaster to
> blast to my comcast DAT (pace DC50Xu):
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16880121002
> 
> Anyways on 64 bit gentoo 2.6.32 openvz kernel and lirc-0.8.7 and the
> mceusb driver (there is a note that mceusb2 merged into mceusb) I can
> receive signals from my remote but it is not transmitting. I tried all
> the steps in the mythtv wiki but I can not get it to transmit on
> either port.
> 
> I thought the ir transmitter was broken (long thin cable) but I just
> tried it on a windows 7 machine (good thing a friends pc had a dead
> mobo that he needed repaired) and the ir blasting worked after I added
> one of my tuners.. The led displays a visible blink while
> transmitting. I was unable to see that in linux.
> 
> Any ideas how I can debug this? Perhaps I should get a mythubuntu (or
> similar) livecd and try that with the friends pc to see if I can get
> the blaster working there?
> 
> Sorry for being brief. I am typing from my old dell D820 work laptop
> and I absolutely hate the keyboard and the random jump feature (while
> typing the cursor seems to randomly jump to any place in the text).

USB Device ID, please?

I've got a report from one person that the GP-IR02BK is now shipping with
device ID 1784:0011 instead of 1784:0008, but that the 0011 also needs
the gen3 init routine the 0008 required to get tx working.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com