[mythtvnz] Setting up an irblaster

[Dagan Galarneau]

Hi Corrin,

It was a bit tricky getting a single lirc instance to run two different 
remotes, such as the PVR-350 for receiving and the IR Blaster for 
transmitting.  There was an excellent site at lircsetup.com that made it 
pretty simple, but I'm sad to see it's down right now.

The first thing I should mention is that the digital camera trick didn't 
work for me with the IR Blaster.  I could see other IR transmitters with my 
digital camera, but I'm pretty sure the IR blaster didn't show up.  I can't 
say for certain, because I stopped testing it before everything started 
working, but I never saw the IR blaster using the camera.

Which flavour of linux are you running?  In my initial testing, I was 
getting log entries similar to yours.  It took a while before I got 
everything working properly.  Unfortunately, the hard drive died in my 
MythTV box so I can't see my working setup and am thus operating from memory.

- Dagan


At 05:38 p.m. 20/02/2006 +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
>When I run changechannel.sh I get no errors, but no infra-red :(
>I tried the infra-red camera trick and concluded that my camera can detect
>infra-red but my irblaster isn't transmitting any.  So, I don't know if the
>device I was shipped was DOA, or if my serial port on my MB is broken, or if
>I have something misconfigured somewhere...