Re: Two Dish Network 311 receivers

[Jeff C. <jca...@in...>]

I'm using a dual head ir blaster which I bought from
http://www.irblaster.info/

Using the JVC_RAW codes I can change the channels on the receiver which is
on codeset 1 with either of the two heads on the blaster. So I know it at
least works for some ir codes.

Is it possible that I have the blaster positioned over the wrong eye on
the receiver? I notice that there are what looks like three ir led's on
the front.

Do I maybe have the blaster too close to the receiver or something?

Are there different flavors of the 311 receivers?

Thanks again!
- Jeff

> I'm using the ones from that howto. I'm the one who originally wrote it.
>
> Sounds like you have the boxes set correctly . . .
> BTW, almost all dish receivers use the same codes. I use the same ones
> (number 6) to control my new Dish HD receiver.
>
> Are you sure the blaster is working? Is it homemade or bought?
>
> Did you check the troubleshooting section?
> http://www.htpcug.com/troubleshooting.htm
>
> --P
>
>
>
>
> On 3/29/06, Jeff Carlson <jca...@in...> wrote:
>>
>> Huh, I wonder what I'm doing wrong then. I'm pretty sure I have the
>> codesets set correctly. They list 1 and 6 on their respective "system
>> info" screens.
>>
>> Would you mind sending me your lirc.conf and "change channel" script
>> files?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Jeff
>>
>> > Jeff,
>> >
>> > I have two 311 receivers, I use the 1 and 6 codes. works fine. try
>> > tweeking
>> > the "sleep" in you script. Are you sure you receivers are set to the
>> right
>> > codeset id?
>> >
>> > --P
>> >
>> >
>> > On 3/29/06, Jeff Carlson <jca...@in...> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Alas, the codes listed on that page do not appear to work with the
>> 311
>> >> receiver. Thanks for the help though!
>> >>
>> >> Any other ideas? Anyone?
>> >>
>> >> -- Jeff
>> >>
>> >> > Hi Jeff,
>> >> >
>> >> > Try this howto http://www.htpcug.com/lircsetup_com.htm.
>> >> > There are a couple codesets here
>> >> http://www.htpcug.com/lircsetup_com.htm
>> >> > I don't think the code 9 set works, try the code 6 set first.
>> >> >
>> >> > --Pete
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On 3/23/06, Jeff Carlson <jca...@in...> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hello All,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I'm am trying to get lirc to work with two Dish Network 311
>> receivers
>> >> >> but
>> >> >> so far I've only had luck getting the first one to work. I'm using
>> a
>> >> >> dual-head serial ir-blaster from http://www.irblaster.info/ with
>> the
>> >> >> lirc
>> >> >> 0.8.0 code on Suse 10 x86_64. One receiver is on "codeset" 1 (this
>> >> one
>> >> >> works), the other is on codeset 9 (this one doesn't work).
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I've been following the directions at
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >>
>> http://losdos.dyndns.org:8080/public/mythtv-info/MythTV_DISH_IR_LED_TX_via_Modified_LIRC.html#Note_for_MultiDISH_users
>> >> >> for setting up multiple receivers (i.e. using the JVC_RAW ir
>> values,
>> >> >> modifying jvc_raw.c for codeset 9, compiling it/running it, add
>> new
>> >> set
>> >> >> to
>> >> >> end of lirc.conf), but apparently this is no good for the 311
>> >> receiver.
>> >> >> On
>> >> >> a side note, i've actually been following the entire document
>> because
>> >> I
>> >> >> have another ir-receiver in my system which I don't want to
>> conflict
>> >> >> with
>> >> >> the ir-blaster, but I don't think it has any bearing on my problem
>> >> (I've
>> >> >> disabled it just to make sure it isn't conflicting).
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I also tried using irrecord to manually get the correct values...
>> but
>> >> >> that
>> >> >> didn't work either. In fact, it didn't even work for the receiver
>> on
>> >> >> codeset 1.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> So, any ideas? Does anyone happen to have the ir codes for a 311
>> >> >> receiver
>> >> >> which isn't on codeset 1? It doesn't have to be for set 9, I can
>> >> change
>> >> >> the receiver to another value.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Thanks!
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
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