Tuesday, 27 November 2007

Verizon FIOS: Update

You could maybe guessed it already from a little bit faster download of this blog that I finally could switch over to Verizon FIOS. That said it needed some heavy guns to get the necessary info from Verizon. At the very end I had to call up an account representative and request that my service will be cancelled with an angry ton to stress the point and finally they were able to find a tech support gal able to find the right answer. And the answer was dead simple - I just had to look for Static NAT on their firewall settings. I never thought that IP forwarding could be found under firewall settings. Still Verizon is not able to provide a manual for their ActionTec router and so when I have another question I just have to get angry, call the account guy and demand a tech support guy/gal.

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Posted by schaefera at 10:17 PM in Annoying

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IR Blaster to Change Channel on any Set Top Box

Switching to DirectTV required me to look for an alternative solution to change channels because their USB port did not seem to work. So I bought an IR Blaster and started to create a LIRC driver that will use the IR Blaster device to send the change channel command like a regular remote would do. This is a complete, I hope, instructions on how to setup IR Blaster on a SuSE 10.x box (I installed it on 10.2 and 10.3 without any problems). These instructions are based on the excellent howto from jds-myth. I just made it a little bit simpler for SuSE users but with some minor adjustments it should also work for Fedora. Here I will just highlight the steps to make it work but on my company's article page I will also have the necessary code available. The only thing you have to do is to find the correct configuration file ledxmit.conf for the set-top box remote and adjust the driver name inside the change_channel.sh script. I use here RC24.

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Posted by schaefera at 10:06 PM in MythTV

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