[mythtv-users] New Comcast DTA, grrrrrrrr.

[Devin Heitmueller]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Craig Huff <huffcslists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sigh......  One of my DTAs died, so I went in to get a replacement from
> Comcast.  They handed me a new kind that "won't work with the remote for the
> old one" (problem #1), and doesn't have the 3.5mm jack in the back to plug
> in an IR extender sensor (problem #2).
>
> While I can deal with problem #2 by going old school and taping an IR LED to
> the face, which means that problem #1 eliminates the risk of creating
> problem #3: cross-talk with the other DTAs, I still need to figure out what
> the right transmitter file to use from /usr/share/lirc/... when MythTV needs
> to tune it to a channel.  It also means I'll need to extend my
> change-channel-lirc script to use a different signalling ID for one DTA --
> up until now they were all DC50Xu.
>
> While I'm blindly trying to find what type it is by trying the various
> likely prospects, or resorting to brute testing each and every one, and/or
> searching on the LIRC website, maybe someone can save me time by telling me
> what is appropriate for this DTA:

Try the DC50 codeset you already have.  Last I checked the DC50 and
100 used the same
codeset (which allowed Comcast to give out the same remote control for both).

Devin

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