I'm not saying it's not supported... but I've been on this list and using
lirc for a decade, and never noticed it.
What I am saying is this: if you stick to well tested and supported
hardware, you'll have an easier time with blasting.
On Nov 5, 2012 6:56 AM, "stuart" <stuart@...> wrote:
>
> That's to bad. I like the USB Infrared Toy as I have PIC knowledge and
> thought to share a HW project where the USB Infrared Toy was the center for
> all types of Mythtv features. It strikes me that this 1 device could be
> used to receive & send IR signals as well as control any number of Liquid
> Crystal or Vacuum Florescent Displays. I don't see the microsoft product
> doing that.
>
> So, to be clear ... Are you saying that the lirc command "irsend" is
> believed not to work with the USB Infrared Toy?
>
> -thanks
>
> On 11/04/2012 10:21 AM, Christ Schlacta wrote:
>
>> Usbuirt2 is a good option, as is mce based transceiver. It's usually
>> best to stick to well used and known-to-work hardware.
>>
>> On Nov 4, 2012 7:38 AM, "stuart" <stuart@...
>> <mailto:stuart@...>> wrote:
>>
>> It's a year later....
>>
>> Hi, I was rebuilding my mythtv box which has been using lirc and the
>> USB
>> Infrared Toy from dagerousprototypes.com
>> <http://dagerousprototypes.com**> to control mythtv very
>> successfully for quite some time.
>>
>> But this go around I wanted to also control my TV from the USB
>> Infrared
>> Toy. (For those who may not know, the USB Infrared Toy is a PIC
>> (microchip.com <http://microchip.com>) based IR receiver and
>> transmitter which uses the PIC's
>> USB peripheral hardware to connect to your computer.)
>>
>> To do this I have been chasing down what support there might already
>> be
>> to help in the transmission of IR signals from the USB Infrared Toy to
>> my Sony TV. I have connected the dots to this (i.e. this particular
>> thread I'm typing into now). That is, to this lirc patch submission
>> by
>> Peter Kooiman.
>>
>> I've downloaded the Peter's patch and looked for the associated files
>> in
>> the lirc GIT repository. Specifically I looked for
>> "daemons/hw_usbirtoy.c" but did not find it.
>>
>> I looked here:
>> >
>> http://lirc.git.sourceforge.**net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lirc/**
>> lirc;a=tree;f=daemons;h=**3a413ac0244dd6afa550aa17ff6a0f**
>> 5c2da27e57;hb=HEAD<http://lirc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lirc/lirc;a=tree;f=daemons;h=3a413ac0244dd6afa550aa17ff6a0f5c2da27e57;hb=HEAD>
>>
>> So, I assume the support to transmit IR signals using the USB Infrared
>> Toy PIC based dongle from dagerousprototypes.com
>> <http://dagerousprototypes.com**> does not exist for
>> Linux based Mythtv users as it is not part of the lirc.org
>> <http://lirc.org> effort?
>>
>> If true, do any have an alternate suggestion?
>>
>> -thanks
>>
>>
>> On 09/02/2011 03:08 AM, Peter Kooiman wrote:
>> > [As plain text this time, sorry!]
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> >
>> > Attached two patches that add support for the Dangerous
>> Prototypes USB Remote Toy receiver/transmitter, for review and
>> possible inclusion.
>> > Patches are against git HEAD.
>> >
>> > Peter
>> >
>> >
>> >
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