[mythtvnz] PVR 150 irblaster and sky

[Dean Pemberton]

I'm not using an irblaster but rather a home brew IR diode off the back 
of a serial port (I think lirc calls it the Igor variation).

Here is my lircd.conf though and it works great with my sky box.

Maybe it can be of some use.


begin remote

  name  sky
  bits           16
  flags SPACE_ENC|CONST_LENGTH
  eps            30
  aeps          100

  header       9350  4433
  one           763  1530
  zero          763   381
  ptrail        751
  repeat       9350  2140
  pre_data_bits   16
  pre_data       0x61F4
  gap          110040
  toggle_bit      0


      begin codes
          power                    0x00000000000058A7
          1                        0x00000000000040BF
          2                        0x000000000000C837
          3                        0x00000000000030CF
          4                        0x0000000000006897
          5                        0x00000000000028D7
          6                        0x000000000000E817
          7                        0x00000000000018E7
          8                        0x000000000000B04F
          9                        0x0000000000009867
          0                        0x000000000000708F
          up                       0x000000000000D12E
          down                     0x0000000000008976
          left                     0x00000000000011EE
          right                    0x000000000000B946
          enter                    0x00000000000008F7
          mute                     0x00000000000050AF
      end codes

end remote



Simon Green wrote:
>>> On 17/10/2007, Steven Ellis <steven at openmedia.co.nz> wrote:
>>>       
>> Its an RC-30 remote which you can find here -
>> http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/pace/RC-30
>>     
>
> Ok. I'm about ready to pull out all my hairs[1] over trying to get
> this working. After googling, I found this site[2]. Using the
> send_power_new script sent the codes through the blaster without any
> errors, but as noted in comment 272, you cannot just add the RC_30
> file to lircd.conf to make the patched lirc send codes to an
> unsupported box.
>
> I therefore bought a serial IR transmitter from irblaster.info (US$17
> including postage), but am failing at getting the lircd.conf /
> hardware.conf file correct to get that working too[4] following the
> instruction from the Ubuntu Community Wiki[3]. If someone has got this
> working, can you please tell me
>
> 1) What distro you are using
> 2) What version of lirc you are running (did you compile it or use the
> version that came with your distro)
> 3) Send me a copy of your /etc/lirc directory
> 4) Anything else I need to know to get it working.
>
> TIA
>
>   -- simon
>
> [1] and it's going to be my chest hairs because I'm all bald :P
> [2] http://www.blushingpenguin.com/mark/blog/?p=24
> [3] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Install_Lirc_Gutsy
> [4] simon at mythbox:~$ sudo irsend -d /dev/lirc1 SEND_ONCE Pace_RC-30 5
> irsend: could not connect to socket
> irsend: Connection refused
>
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