Tuesday, 27 November 2007
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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