jarod at wilsonet
Nov 21, 2009, 8:13 PM
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Re: HVR-2250 IR blaster: This doesn't look good.
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On Nov 21, 2009, at 9:09 PM, stefan_jones [at] comcast wrote:
> With help from the good folks here I got my HVR-2250 running.
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> I thought I'd check /var/log/messages to see if there was a device assigned to the IR portion of the card. I only found this:
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> "Nov 21 13:30:45 localhost kernel: tveeprom 3-0000: has radio, has IR receiver, has no IR transmitter"
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> Ungh. I guess the current driver doesn't support the transmitter portion. (The basic HVR-2250 card has a jack for a cable that splits into a transmitter and remote reciever.)
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> Has anyone successfully accessed the on-board IR blaster?
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> (My system has no serial ports, and the inexpensive serial IR Blasters out there don't work with USB to serial adaptors.)
In theory, it should be relatively easy to get the IR part working, once someone with the right motivation, skills, etc. has one of those cards. Most likely another device that we'll be able to drive with lirc_zilog, once the capture card driver exports the TX part too.
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Jarod Wilson
jarod [at] wilsonet
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