[Sussex] lircd problems

[James Smith]

Hi all,

Thanks for the responses... I bought a UPS a while ago to solve the
power problems, but had to send it back as it didn't work (avoid
redstore.com if at all possible, btw). As for lircd itself, I will
have to investigate some more and try to work out why it's dying.

I will check out the watcher script idea, that sounds useful for all
manner of things, not just this. Thanks also for the other hints as
well, I will do some more investigation and see what turns up.

Steve, the IR control via the PVR350 is very very easy, from what I
remember. The Fedora Myth(TV)ology page (http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/)
has a pretty good description of how to get it all working (at least,
that's what I used). Obviously if there are any config files I can
lend you, just shout.

cheers,
James

On 28/01/07, Steve Dobson <steve at dobson.org> wrote:
> James
>
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:18:46PM +0000, James Smith wrote:
> > I have a quick question to run by you, particularly those of you
> > running MythTV, and even more particularly those of you doing that
> > with a Sky box...
>
> That would be me then.
>
> > Right, if there's anyone still listening, here's my setup:
>
> Yes
>
> > Shuttle PC running MythTV, video into a PVR350 from my sky box and out
> > to the TV.
>
> Compaq rather than a Shuttle PC, but the Hauppauge PVR350 is the same
> with a S-VIDEO connection to my Ski box.
>
> >            MythTV controlled via a universal remote using the IR input
> > on the PVR350.
>
> Haven't bothered to get the IR working yet.  Would be interested in your
> config to do so.
>
> >                 Sky box is controlled by a IR transmitter connected to
> > the serial port of the PC. So, I have one instance of lircd to receive
> > the remote signals, and a second instance to provide control for the
> > sky box. The problem is this..
>
> I control the Sky box using a Red-Eye serial cable [1].  At the other end is
> a IR transmitter than you tape over the IR receiver on the Sky box.  It
> works perfectly.  There is no need to run to lircd daemons.
>
> If you go to their download section [2] you can down load both the spec
> and a little linux program that will configure the serial port and sent
> the commands to it.  I works just fine and you can test everything out
> using minicom(1) or any other TTY comms program.
>
> I found it best to put a script between MythTV and the red_eye program.
> The script I use is below [3] and by tailing /var/log/syslog you can
> see what commands the MythTV box is sending to the Skybox.
>
> Hope this helps
> Steve
>
> [1]
> http://www.redremote.co.uk/serial/
>
> [2]
> http://www.redremote.co.uk/serial/resdown.html
>
> [3]
> #!/bin/sh
> #
>
> logger -t red-eye "Command: $1"
>
> red_eye /dev/ttyS1 $1 2 0
>
> exit 0
>
>
>
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