[mythtvnz] what lircd.conf to use for TelstraClear remote?

[Steven Ellis]

Hadley Rich wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:19:04 Duncan Kennington wrote:
>   
>> For reference, my channel changing script is:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> REMOTE_NAME=sky
>> for digit in $(echo $1 | sed -e 's/./& /g'); do
>>   /usr/local/lirc-ledxmit/bin/ledxmit-irsend SEND_ONCE $REMOTE_NAME $digit
>>   sleep 1.3
>> done
>>
>> (the sleep is important - depending on the decoder this can be adjusted
>> down - 1.3 is slow, but always works.  I found 0.8 would have 20 sometimes
>> change to 2 instead)
>>     
>
> Here's mine;
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import os, sys
> #import time
>
> try:
>         channel = sys.argv[1]
> except:
>         print "Usage: change_chan.py NUMBER"
>         sys.exit()
> else:
>         if len(channel) == 1:
>                 channel = "00%s" % channel
>         if len(channel) == 2:
>                 channel = "0%s" % channel
>         for number in channel:
>                 os.system('/usr/local/lirc-ledxmit/bin/ledxmit-irsend 
> SEND_ONCE DTH335 %s' % number)
>
>
> Python is overkill but I use it for other stuff so it's on there anyway. My 
> Skybox (Motorola) doesn't seem to care about how fast you send the digits so 
> there's no sleep. Also sending all three digits is faster for me as the Sky 
> box then doesn't have to pause when you are finished waiting for more input.
>   
Interesting that you don't need a sleep with your motorola box. Got a
customer with a Sky Zenith box which uses the same codes, but really
does like a slight pause between key codes.

Steve

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