Re: [PATCH] Driver for USB Infrared Toy

[stuart <st...@xn...>]

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" <st...@xn...
> <mailto: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
>     <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=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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