I hope I am not asking a silly question. I can’t seem to find the answer by phpbb’s search and can’t search with google because of the forum logon.

I curentley have a working MythTV R5D1 box and Rogers digital cable in Canada. I change channels with an IR blaster.

We are thinking of changing to Star Choice because they keep jacking the price of our cable. But I can’t find if there receivers will work with my setup. When I call Star Choice they tell me smoothing different each time. They are selling the Motorola DSR205. I can’t find any lirc scripts for that modal. At tech support one guy tells me it isn’t IR and another tells me it is. Do any of you have one and know if it will work and what lirc and an IR blaster and what script to use. I am worried it may be a sonic remote or something.

I can't say for certain about the DSR205 because I don't have one but I've got it to work on a DSR401, DSR405 and DSR505. I'm using a PVR-150 with the remote and blaster. In the lircd.conf file I change all the 1_27_KEY_ lines (remove that part of the name). I'm guessing the codes should be the same if you're using some other type of blaster. I also had to change REMOTE_NAME from some motorola name to 'blaster' without the quotes in /usr/local/bin/change-channel-lirc.sh for R5E50. I had a problem with the DSR401 because the starchoice remote was set up as ID 2 instead of 1. I had to change it back to 1 through the options in the starchoice box itself and then the 1_27_KEY_ codes started to work.

Hope this helps. Oh, and I'm only recording SD off the DSR505 box.

Thanks for the info.

Th 505 isn't it a UHF system or dos it also have ir?

It has both. I can use my remote for the 405 that's IR only with the 505. I just used a flash light to find the IR receiver behind the dark plastic on the front of the 505 to position my IR blaster.

Thanks for you help thus far it is really helping me out. I was wondering what codes you used for your irblaster.conf file. I am trying http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/motorola/IRC442 but It wont change the channels on my dsr315. From a hardware and software point everything should be working as all i did was take the blaster of the front of my working cable box and change the irblaster.conf file to the new one and attach to the dsr315.

When i do a ./change_change.sh 41 i get this


root@mythtv:/etc/irblaster# ./channel_change.sh 41
changing to 41
/usr/bin/irsend: command failed: SEND_ONCE Motorola_IRC442-1 Motorola_IRC442-2
/usr/bin/irsend: unknown command: "Motorola_IRC442-2"
/usr/bin/irsend: command failed: SEND_ONCE Motorola_IRC442-1 Motorola_IRC442-2
/usr/bin/irsend: unknown command: "Motorola_IRC442-2"

I found the problem. I had to remove this part form http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/motorola/IRC442

name Motorola_IRC442-1
bits 11
flags SPACE_ENC|CONST_LENGTH
eps 30
aeps 100

header 2385 603
one 1178 603
zero 590 603
ptrail 590
gap 44826
toggle_bit 0


begin codes
VOL_UP 0x0000000000000248
VOL_DOWN 0x0000000000000648
MUTE 0x0000000000000148
REV 0x00000000000006CD
FWD 0x00000000000001CD
PLAY 0x00000000000002CD
STOP 0x00000000000000CD
PAUSE 0x00000000000004CD
end codes

end remote

When i removed it I could send commands to my dsr315. I am not sour how it will work as the sat isn't set up yet with the missing code.

I didn't end up using the IRC442 file. I just loosely followed the first post of this thread http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6206 without having to build any drivers. I'm guessing you're using a Serial IR blaster and not the blaster from a PVR-150.