Re: [PATCH] Driver for USB Infrared Toy

[Christ S. <aa...@gm...>]

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" <st...@xn...> 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 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) 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=3a413ac0244dd6afa550aa17ff6a0f5c2da27e57;hb=HEAD
>
> So, I assume the support to transmit IR signals using the USB Infrared
> Toy PIC based dongle from dagerousprototypes.com does not exist for
> Linux based Mythtv users as it is not part of the 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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