[pvrusb2] IR blaster in the HVR-1900

[Roger]

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 04:48:40PM +0200, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
>Roger wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 06:15:20PM +0200, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
>>> I'm trying to use the IR blaster of my HVR-1900 tuners, and I'm not
>>> having any luck so far. I have no experience with IR blastering ;-) so I
>>
>> I have a HVR-1950 which looks exactly like the HVR-1900. (Stupified, I can't
>> see a difference!)  Using Gentoo:
>
>Roger,
>
>Thanks for all the info.
>
>To be clear: are you using the HVR-1950 only in respect of receiving IR 
>signals from a remote control (with which to control various 
>applications running on the machine to which the tuner is connected), or 
>are you also using the IR blaster for generating IR signals with which 
>to control external devices such as a set-top box?
>
>What I'm after is the latter: I'm stashing a couple of set-top boxes in 
>the machine room and I need the MythTV backend to be able to change 
>channels on them without human intervention.

The last I've heard, the "(IR) blaster" still doesn't work.  This IR blaster 
seems to be the common slang name for the feature you're describing.

-- 
Roger
http://rogerx.freeshell.org/