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james at tfxsoft

Jan 20, 2010, 5:49 AM

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channel change from remote box

So last night I connected my newly built frontend to the TV and moved my
IR receiver to the new box. Unfortunately on doing so I overlooked the
fact that the backend can no longer change channels as it is also the
blaster :)

I'm after a way to run the channel change script on my new remote
frontend, but as initiated by the MBE. My initial thought was to write
a webpage hosted on the frontend that does the channel changing, then
put a wget command to get it in the channel change script box. Is that
complicating it too much?

Cheers,
James.
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pebender at san

Jan 20, 2010, 6:53 AM

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Re: channel change from remote box [In reply to]

On 1/20/2010 5:49 AM, James Thorpe wrote:
> So last night I connected my newly built frontend to the TV and moved my
> IR receiver to the new box. Unfortunately on doing so I overlooked the
> fact that the backend can no longer change channels as it is also the
> blaster :)
>
> I'm after a way to run the channel change script on my new remote
> frontend, but as initiated by the MBE. My initial thought was to write a
> webpage hosted on the frontend that does the channel changing, then put
> a wget command to get it in the channel change script box. Is that
> complicating it too much?

Why not run the script on the MBE and use lirc's ability to connect over
the network (see lircd's --listen and --connect options) in order access
the IR blaster on the frontend?
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james at tfxsoft

Jan 20, 2010, 6:58 AM

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Re: channel change from remote box [In reply to]

On 20/01/2010 14:53, Paul Bender wrote:
> Why not run the script on the MBE and use lirc's ability to connect
> over the network (see lircd's --listen and --connect options) in order
> access the IR blaster on the frontend?
>

Sounds like a better plan than mine :)

Cheers!
James.
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