Re: actisys 200l and explorer digital cable boxes....

[Karl B. <ka...@tu...>]

The lirc_sir driver is hard-coded to transmit at 38khz.  Most devices work
at this frequency.  It is not tuned to a frequency for receive work, so
you could record something at 56khz, but not transmit it.

I'm told some of the cable and dish boxes work at 56khz.

The actisys 200 has some hardware features that lirc_sir does not
use.  It could transmit at 56khz with a some work coding support for
it.

Working solution include building home-brew circuitry, for receive
you could pick up several receivers each tuned to a freq.

For transmit work, the home-brew circuitry is very simple, it's
a IR LED stuck into the RS232 port.  Well actually theres a resistor
and diode too, but it would probably work without those too.  And
lirc_serial can make any frequency you put in lirc.conf(lirc_sir
cannot.)


On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 06:53:24PM -0500, chris john wrote:
> is it possible to use the actisys 200L to control a digital cable box suc=
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> the explorer?.... the model I have is the 2100 by scientific atlanta. I h=
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> tried the explorer 200 codes in the the remotes file without success as w=
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> as recording my own. I can successfully record the codes at least they te=
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> out well with irw but I can't get them to transmit . I mean if i can reco=
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> code does that mean the actisys will nessarilly be able to transmit it?..=
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> is there a device I might have around the house that is known to work wit=
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> the actisys that I could test it on?... (i've also tried it with a sony t=
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> without any success...)... if anyone has any suggestions i'm willing to t=
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> them... i don't understand a great deal about ir protocols or anything...=
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> but i was told that the actisys was capable of doing this sort of thing s=
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> thought i would give it a shot...
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> thanks...
> chris
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