[mythtv-users] Desperate: Help with ir-keytable and IguanaIR

[Greg Oliver]

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 7:00 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I give with these things. The ebay seller I got this from sent me
> >> another one of these and it's just as void of any life as the first
> >> one...again, even testing with the Windows stuff as described above.
> >> If knows the device is there but simply isn't getting anything from
> >> any remotes.
> >>
> >
> > OMG...I emailed Iguanaworks support with the details and got a reply
> > which may have answered all of this...though I'm waiting for another
> > reply confirming this.
> >
> > It's looking like I may have received the wrong unit. That is rather
> > than this, with a built-in receiver:
> >
> > https://www.iguanaworks.net/products/usb-ir-transceiver/
> >
> > ...it appears I may have received this, which has NO receiver at all
> > and works with a wired receiver:
> >
> > https://www.iguanaworks.net/products/usb-ir-transceiver/socket-receive/
> >
> > Unless you look into the end of the thing with a light, they look
> > basically identical. Again...waiting for another reply to confirm but
> > I'm almost sure that's what happened. For the love of all that is holy
> > anyway...
> >
> > Tom
>
> Wow I don't know what it is with me an IR receivers but this one just
> keeps getting worse.
>
> I verified for sure that I have the Iguanaworks "socket receiver"
> which is intended to have a wired receiver plugged into the 1/8 jack
> farthest from the USB plug. I bought a wired receiver on ebay that
> took a month and  a half to arrive from China and it didn't work...not
> even testing with the Windows igclient. It behaved just like it did
> when I was trying to use it without a receiver. At that point I
> assumed that the wired receiver may have been wired differently (the
> support folks at Iguanaworks mentioned that that was a 50/50 shot), so
> I ordered a wired receiver from Iganaworks. I got that today and STILL
> no luck at all. I even have two of the USB units still (as I was
> shipped a second from the ebay seller) and no luck with either one.
>
> Under both Linux and Windows it's the same. The unit itself is seen
> but gets no input. Just plain crazy.
>
> What concerns me is that, which nVidia dropping support for 32 bit
> operating systems, a time will come where I'll need to replace my old
> frontend (which has a very reliable serial port receiver), and I
> simply can NOT find a USB IR that works. Beyond insane.
>
> As I've mentioned before I have an MCE receiver that works, but has so
> much lag and is so unreliable as to be unusable, and now I'm at a
> total brick wall with this. Just insane.
>
> Tom
>

I know you do not like the lag on MCE usb stuff, but I have several of
these receivers:

GP-IR02BK(TSES-IR18)

That's the model number on it.  I never knew IR could be faster - it is no
more laggy than a remote that comes with my TVs controlling the TVs
themselves.  And of course MythTV running on a quad core i7 will obviously
feel faster than any "rented" provider's piece of equipment no matter how
laggy the IR feels to you :)

I have never had anything else to compare with though....

I have used these units since 2009 or 2010 since I started using MythTV - I
cannot recall ever missing a keypress.  The remotes that come with them are
crap, but I use harmonies with Windows Media Center as the type in the
Harmony software.  I just switched most frontends to nVidia Shields, so
they are decommissioned, but if you can still find that model number
somewhere - they work well for me (my TV still uses one).  I velcro(ed)
them to the bottoms of the TVs and they have 2 IR blaster ports that I
assume just repeat whatever they receive - I have never used them.

Of course if your Iguana fiasco doesn't pan out - that is weird - must be
something with USB.  Does your motherboard have the serial header that you
could get the DB9 cable and use actual serial?  I know the latest board I
bought still had it, but have also seen new ones without the header at
all..

If you have a /dev/ttyS0, etc - then you may have the header too.  I cannot
imagine them putting a 232 (or more advanced) chip on the board without
adding the header.  RS232 has no loopback signals, so with or without being
cabled up, you should still see it if it is active in BIOS or EFI.
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