[pvrusb2] Lirc CVS works with IR-Blaster in WinTV-PVR-USB2 MCE-Kit

[roger]

Some things to note:

DCT-3412, DCT-700 are the newer digital boxes for Comcast cable.

DCT-2500 is the older digital box and provides a serial port for
changing channels.  (Although a quick search seems to only show
dct-2000/2500 with a serial port.)


What would be interesting, is if the DCT-700 is capable of this feature
as most will use this box as I don't think there's a rental fee with
this cheaper box.  

However, I'm guessing problems with the "0"/zero key are still an issue?

For my brief research:
http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/programming/comcast.html


I might re-research these issues this week.  Thank you for notifying us
this most important feature!




On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 06:43 -0600, Roger J. Allen wrote:
> The Media Center Kit version of the WinTV-PVR-USB2 comes with an eHome
> USB transceiver.  That transceiver has an IR Blaster which plugs into
> it.  The latest CVS of lirc now has the code to output IR signals thru
> the IR-Blaster.  It is working with my Comcast cable box.  I am using
> the lircd.conf settings for the motorola DCT2000 that is in:
> 
> http://www.lirc.org/remotes.tar.bz2
> 
> I had been using a serial IR-Blaster to allow mythtv to change the
> channels on the cable box, but this provides a USB option.
> 
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Roger
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Mon Dec 4 08:54:31 PST 2006