[mythtv-users] Controlling STB with Lirc

[Karl Newman]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 9:49 AM, aaron <memoryguy at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:22 AM, aaron <memoryguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rick,
>>
>> Thanks for that. I had been placing my transmitter a fair bit back from
>> the box, so I thought maybe I need it closer. I tried your trick on using
>> SEND_START and moving the device around, right in front of the face of the
>> box. But still, no luck :-(
>>
>> I also tried the other suggestion of adding a delay (I tried 1 sec), but
>> that also didn't help (although I had tried that with the device further
>> away). I'll have to try playing with it some more when I get some time
>> (which is less and less often... We're in the process of moving into the
>> house, finalising the wedding plans, and I bunch of other stuff.
>> Unfortunately it doesn't leave much time for the important things like
>> MythTV :-))
>>
>>
>>
> Sorry to drudge up an old thread, but I've not had a lot of opportunity to
> look into this over the last few months. I tried moving the transmitter all
> over the place, while it was busy sending the "SELECT" command, but still
> no luck.
>
> Interestingly, while it is continuing to send"SELECT", if I pick up the
> actual Bell Fibe remote and press "Select" the box does respond... which
> hints to me that there isn't any IR interference... is it possible it's
> using different frequencies than my emitter knows about?
>
> I still haven't been able to find any other information about controlling
> this box with LIRC. All my searches just bring up this thread.
>
> I tried changing the driver back from "uirt2_raw" (which seemed to work to
> record the keys), to "usb_uirt_raw", but that didn't seem to make any
> difference... unsurprisingly. It was a long shot :)
>
> I stared more closely at the remote and I see on the back it says, "MXv4
> IR"... which seems to be the only indication of what the remote is.
> Searching for this turns up ... not much. Apparently there is a car tire
> with the same model... and a few other providers use the same remote with
> their boxes. It's a Motorola box, so maybe it's also a Motorola remote, but
> I haven't found anything promising (based on key names) in the LIRC remotes
> repository.
>
> I really don't want to give up on MythTV (after using it for 11 years) ...
> it really makes the provided PVR's offerings look pathetic... but I just
> don't seem to be able to control the Fibe box :(
>
> aaron
>

Maybe your remote's lircd.conf needs the line "flags XMP" in the header and
then re-record? Just a wild guess...

Karl
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