So I have a PVR-500 hooked up to the cable coming out of the wall and then an IR blaster to control my DCT-2000 which inputs to the first s-video input on the PVR-500. I set up the sources so that channels 2-73 are hooked up the tuners on the PVR-500 and the digital channels go through the s-video cable. The IR blaster works a majority of the time, but sometimes it misses a number or two. What do I need to change in the channel_change script to make it repeat the number again, or is there a better solution??

Here is the channel_change.sh:

mueller@holloway:~/channel$ cat /etc/irblaster/channel_change.sh
#!/bin/bash

echo "changing to $1"

REMOTE_NAME=\
$(grep ^[[:space:]]*name[[:space:]] /etc/irblaster/irblasterd.conf |
awk '{ print $2 }')

echo $REMOTE_NAME

for digit in $(echo $1 | sed -e 's/./& /g'); do
sleep 0.2
/usr/bin/irsend --device=/dev/irblasterd SEND_ONCE $REMOTE_NAME $digit
sleep 0.5
done

read "IMPORTANT NOTE #2" about 3/4ths of the way down
http://losdos.dyndns.org:8080/public/my ... HOWTO.html

while my writeup linked to above is outdated due to the irblaster auto-configuration introduced in later KnoppMyth releases, the problem described in that section is still valid.

hence,



so the current PID on my machine is 3006.

we can manually up the irblasterd priority as follows,



note that the PID is also recorded in a file when irblasterd is started up via the /etc/init.d/irblaster script,



this is handy, as such,



ergo, we can use this bit of info to change the priority right after irblasterd is started, as shown in this snippet from /etc/init.d/irblaster



thus,





jim aka the wrooster

ETA:
i would also make sure that you have enough inter-digit gap. play around with longer times and see if that makes a difference.

I think I figured out why it is doing that. The cable box is hooked up to tuner 2 and I have the myth box set to use the tuner with the least things scheduled on it. So right away when I tune in to watch tv it uses turner 1. So when the IR blaster sends the channel, it has to switch to the second encoder first. Once its on that encoder, the channel changing is not a problem. So either I need a way to repeat it with a long enough pause for the box to switch to the second encoder or put that in the script before it sends the channel. I assume it would be much less of a pain in the ass to just send the channel again. Any thoughts??

it's not very clear what your issue actually is.

your first post indicates that "The IR blaster works a majority of the time, but sometimes it misses a number or two."

your second post indicates that "So either I need a way to repeat it with a long enough pause for the box to switch to the second encoder."

if you need a pause, simply put a sleep statement in the script before any commands are sent to the cable box.



the IR blaster does not "switch" anything.

i believe that the solution could be as simple as only having your channel change script send channel change commands to the cable box via the IR balster if the requested channel is above 73.




jim aka the wrooster