<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:44 AM, David Lowe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@thistledown.co.nz">david@thistledown.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Stephen Worthington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Using an IRBlaster to change channels is not always reliable. I still<br>
have the occasional problem where a digit gets missed, so I think I<br>
might need a small sleep command or two to delay things a little.<br>
<br></blockquote></div><div>Thanks Stephen for your comprehensive note. Just on reliability, I have been using the other script I referred to for over two years without a hitch. I guess the difference is indeed the sleep command but I dont know how to include it in your script.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Put it in after each of the system calls in the script, i.e.<br>...<br></div></div> if ($channel_digit_0 != "0") {<br>
system("irsend SEND_ONCE $remote_name $channel_digit_1");<br> sleep 1;<br>
}<br>
system("irsend SEND_ONCE $remote_name $channel_digit_2");<br> sleep 1;<br>
system("irsend SEND_ONCE $remote_name $channel_digit_3");<br>...<br><br>Personally I'm a little confused as to why the Sky channels have been set up in the range of 1000-1999? Wouldn't it be simpler to set the freqid of the Sky channel to the actual channel number? You can still have MythTV use 1000-1999 by setting the channum to that and leave the freqid as the actual channel number (e.g. The Box could be channel number = 1005, freqid = 5). That way you only have to send one digit to the Sky box which would make channel changes quicker and less prone to errors (for channels 1-9).<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br><br>