Mailing List Archive: yet another question about using an IR Blaster

yet another question about using an IR Blaster

Jun 13, 2003, 1:18 PM

Post #1 of 6 (1101 views)

I have an ACTiSYS 200 connected to ttyS1, to control a Motorola DCT2000.
All on a system running Debian-Sid.

I believe I followed all the steps in the Myth HowTo for seting up LIRC to
use this device, up to the point where it suggests using "irw" to test the
serial port.

At that point, I try to send commands from the command line, in the form:

irsend SEND_ONCE gi-motorola-dct2000 ENTER

(I try various commands, not just ENTER. "irsend" is the new name for the
program formerly called "rc".)

irsend exits without reporting an error. But ...

Nothing is received at the DCT2000.

irw (running on another console) shows nothing being sent.

The interrupt count for IRQ3 does not increment.

The correct lircd.conf file is in place. The lirc-sir module is loaded and
associated with IRQ3, and the lircd daemon is running. The /dev/lircd
socket is present.

I saw calvin, about a week ago, post nearly the same description, and he
got no response except for someone saying the ATCiSYS was junk. That
response does not seem to address the symptoms (either mine or calvin's),
since I would expect some things to happen (the IRQ being incremented and
irw showing the transmission) even if *nothing* were connected to the
serial port.

Anyone see anything they recognize here? calvin, how did you ever get yours
working (as your later message, raising the issue of latency in changing
channels, implies you did)?

Re: yet another question about using an IR Blaster [ In reply to ]

irish at irishmark

Jun 13, 2003, 1:27 PM

Post #2 of 6 (1098 views)

I created a start-up script that first does 'setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none'
Then inserts and removes and reinserts the module (lirc_sir) with io and irq
specified.
This was the only way to get my actisys 200l working.
It was a long, very long trial and error process.
Note: I could only get 0.6.6 to work as well

Messy tho this is at least the damn thing works now, It sends and recieves
signals for my pace NTL box fine.

good luck, and if you discover neater ways of getting it working let me know

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Olszewski" <ray@comarre.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users@snowman.net>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 9:18 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] yet another question about using an IR Blaster

> I have an ACTiSYS 200 connected to ttyS1, to control a Motorola DCT2000.
> All on a system running Debian-Sid.
>
> I believe I followed all the steps in the Myth HowTo for seting up LIRC to
> use this device, up to the point where it suggests using "irw" to test the
> serial port.
>
> At that point, I try to send commands from the command line, in the form:
>
> irsend SEND_ONCE gi-motorola-dct2000 ENTER
>
> (I try various commands, not just ENTER. "irsend" is the new name for the
> program formerly called "rc".)
>
> irsend exits without reporting an error. But ...
>
> Nothing is received at the DCT2000.
>
> irw (running on another console) shows nothing being sent.
>
> The interrupt count for IRQ3 does not increment.
>
> The correct lircd.conf file is in place. The lirc-sir module is loaded and
> associated with IRQ3, and the lircd daemon is running. The /dev/lircd
> socket is present.
>
> I saw calvin, about a week ago, post nearly the same description, and he
> got no response except for someone saying the ATCiSYS was junk. That
> response does not seem to address the symptoms (either mine or calvin's),
> since I would expect some things to happen (the IRQ being incremented and
> irw showing the transmission) even if *nothing* were connected to the
> serial port.
>
> Anyone see anything they recognize here? calvin, how did you ever get
yours
> working (as your later message, raising the issue of latency in changing
> channels, implies you did)?
>
>
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> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users@snowman.net
> http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: yet another question about using an IR Blaster [ In reply to ]

Jun 13, 2003, 2:02 PM

Post #3 of 6 (1086 views)

At 09:27 PM 6/13/2003 +0100, Mark Edwards wrote:
>I created a start-up script that first does 'setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none'
>Then inserts and removes and reinserts the module (lirc_sir) with io and irq
>specified.
>This was the only way to get my actisys 200l working.
>It was a long, very long trial and error process.
>Note: I could only get 0.6.6 to work as well

Thanks for this feedback. I already did most of this, though (except that I
am using ttyS1, not ttyS0). I modified my script to follow this
modprobe-rmmod-modprobe sequence, and it did not change the situation
(though the unloading and reloading does increment the IRQ count).

Re: yet another question about using an IR Blaster [ In reply to ]

ian at duckland

Jun 13, 2003, 2:28 PM

Post #4 of 6 (1076 views)

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 13:27, Mark Edwards wrote:
> good luck, and if you discover neater ways of getting it working let me know

Yep - for controlling a DCT-2000 box via a serial cable from mythtv,
check yesterday's archives from the dev list - *IF* you bear in mind
that this is neither blessed, sanctioned, approved, consecrated, nor
tolerated by your cable company... ;)

-I
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Re: yet another question about using an IR Blaster [ In reply to ]

blalor at bravo5

Jun 13, 2003, 2:37 PM

Post #5 of 6 (1096 views)

Ian Forde wrote:

> Yep - for controlling a DCT-2000 box via a serial cable from mythtv,
> check yesterday's archives from the dev list - *IF* you bear in mind
> that this is neither blessed, sanctioned, approved, consecrated, nor
> tolerated by your cable company... ;)

The python script isn't archived in either archive. Can someone re-post it?

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Re: yet another question about using an IR Blaster [ In reply to ]

ian at duckland

Jun 13, 2003, 2:58 PM

Post #6 of 6 (1101 views)

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1192561#post1192561

For the original scripts. My modifications are in my post from
yesterday... (I'm not at home right now, so I can't post them)

-I

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 14:37, Brian Lalor wrote:
> Ian Forde wrote:
>
> > Yep - for controlling a DCT-2000 box via a serial cable from mythtv,
> > check yesterday's archives from the dev list - *IF* you bear in mind
> > that this is neither blessed, sanctioned, approved, consecrated, nor
> > tolerated by your cable company... ;)
>
> The python script isn't archived in either archive. Can someone re-post it?
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__________________________________
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CYTBeN, Inc.
ian@duckland.org / ian@cytben.com