Re: FTDI IR Blaster not working

[Albert H. <al...@hu...>]

HI,

interesting stuff! good to know there is a better chip than the FT232R, 
and that there's support inside LIRC for it.
(I've updated my blog to mention your's)

regards,

Albert Huitsing


Op 26-05-16 om 15:24 schreef Will Manley:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, at 10:38, Will Manley wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, at 19:54, Jasper wrote:
>>> I see there is active development on the FTDI driver/plugin and hope that
>>> someone here may be able to give me some clues to help get this going.
>> We've found the FT232R to have unreliable timing in bitbang mode.
>> Depending on the receiver this can cause missed keypresses.  I would
>> recommend the FT230X series instead
>> http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Documents/DataSheets/Modules/DS_UMFT201_220_230XB.pdf
>> .
> My colleague Dave has written up a summary of some of the testing we've
> performed on the FT232R and the FT230X here:
>
> https://stb-tester.com/blog/2016/05/26/ir-post-mortem
>
> I thought some of you may be interested.
>
> Thanks
>
> Will
>
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