Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:50:42 -0400 From: Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LIRC guide for FreeBSD Message-ID: <45F88A52.7000809@netmusician.org> In-Reply-To: <7BADB2D8968E702424EAE969@ganymede.hub.org> References: <45F77267.9080403@netmusician.org> <20070314054117.GB6688@wantadilla.lemis.com> <7BADB2D8968E702424EAE969@ganymede.hub.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > --On Wednesday, March 14, 2007 16:11:17 +1030 Greg 'groggy' Lehey > <grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 13 March 2007 at 23:56:23 -0400, Joe Auty wrote: >>> Does anybody know of a good resource for setting up my IR Blaster >>> within FreeBSD? >> Not I. Are you sure it's supported? Currently very few remote >> controls are. > > Is there a list somewhere of which ones are? I'd love to buy one for my "PVR" > so that I don't have to use the keyboard all the time like now ... make it a > bit more 'intuitive' for the wife to watch too :) > Okay, I think I know where this conversation is breaking down... please correct me if I'm wrong. My understanding is that there is two ways to change channels, one via RF, and one via infrared. I believe with cable and satellites that are RF based, changing channels is as simple as sending a command line instruction to your capture card/tuner. I think this is how discussion of remote controls came into the picture in trying to issue commands to your tuner. In my case, this part is covered. I own a MediaMVP which accepts commands from my Hauppauge remote. I need an IR Blaster connected to my FreeBSD box so that I can simulate the infrared signal sent by my satellite remote so that I can send commands back to my satellite box to change channels. To do this, I have read that I need an IR Blaster, and I need to use LIRC to mediate communication with my IR blaster. I also need a change channel script which will interface with the Myth backend. The piece I'm missing is getting LIRC listening on a device node so that it can communicate with my IR Blaster connected to my serial port. Am I completely out-to-lunch here in how I'm interpreting this conversation? > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org > Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 - -- Joe Auty NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians http://www.netmusician.org joe@netmusician.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF+IpSCgdfeCwsL5ERArA/AKCDRyfqJ/dUxq0vg4TRBtIjLSCPJQCeJP7f YKLoy+M/7dwPug0+2i0jhz4= =IF/f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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