IR Codes

[brucer]

I've created an IR Code file for the Zenith Sky decoder.. You can grab it at http://www.zitafarm.com/zenithSky.tcl

[timmy]

excellent Bruce, have put a link to it on my howto.
I hope you dont mind me linking and using your name

cheers mate

[brucer]

that's cool

[zollymonsta]

Theres a standard General Instrument code that works for Saturn's 2200 and 3300 decoders (look on the bottom to see what model you have) the code is
10006 Works great. I'm still to see if this works on the older models.

Looks like I had it easy for now. Digital Cable still to come, and an unsupported digital box

[Fuzion]

Hi,

I have created a code for this box which I have to decode Sky with.

www.fuzionnet.com/Tivo/MotorolaDTH325-4.tcl

Done using the tivo to capture, used a Palm Pilot (Omniremote) to get Frequency.

Works for me, hope they do for you if you need them.

Steve

[ehintz]

Anybody had success with this? The reddot folks reference sending the codes thus:

/sbin/irtest -t /dev/ttyS0 -- (code here)

But in testing I consistently get "Cannot find microcontroller on /dev/ttyS0". I can of course kill MyWorld, but that sort of defeats the purpose of having a cmd line way of sending an ir command to the STB.

[number6]

Anybody had success with this? The reddot folks reference sending the codes thus:

/sbin/irtest -t /dev/ttyS0 -- (code here)

But in testing I consistently get "Cannot find microcontroller on /dev/ttyS0". I can of course kill MyWorld, but that sort of defeats the purpose of having a cmd line way of sending an ir command to the STB.

Just to confirm you are using /dev/ttyS0 (thats Zero not Oh, and S must be capitalised, check also that there is a space between -t and /dev/tty...).

Also, the UK folks had a lot of trouble getting this to work properly, so the IO redirections > and >& are important I believe or it may not work right.

Also, some UK folks reported that it only seems to work properly when doing this from a bash prompt on the serial port [rather than over the Ethernet via telnet].

I know the /sbin/irtest -t /dev/ttyS0 -v etc I did last week worked fine on my UK TiVo.

I tried this command on my UK TiVo from a Telnet session:

/sbin/irtest -t /dev/ttyS0 -- 0 47 34 2 514 259 33 32 33 32 33 96 33 32 33 32 33 32 33 32 33 96 33 32 33 32 33 96 33 96 33 96 33 96 33 32 33 32 33 32 33 96 33 32 33 32 33 32 33 96 33 32 33 32 33 96 33 32 33 96 33 96 33 96 33 32 3 3 96 33 96 33 2424 514 128 33 5529

and it seemed to work [didn't report any errors like you said you got], it only echoed back the Mirocontroller firmware (microcode) version (00034).

The above string is "digit 9" for my Sky Decoder and needs to be one long line.

I found that the string to be sent (0 47 ...) must not be enclosed in single or double quotes or I got a message about Missing Tivo Format string.
Maybe try the above and see what happens in your case.

Also, heres a ls -l of my /dev/ttyS* files:

crw-r--r-- 1 0 0 4, 64 Apr 12 14:20 /dev/ttyS0
crw-r--r-- 1 0 0 4, 65 Jan 20 2003 /dev/ttyS1
crw-r--r-- 1 0 0 4, 66 Jan 20 2003 /dev/ttyS2
crw-r--r-- 1 0 0 4, 67 Apr 4 16:12 /dev/ttyS3

If your /dev/ttyS0 does not have Major/Minor numbers of 4 & 64 resp. try using the device in your /dev folder that does - as there may be naming differences between the UK Tivo software and the V3 Tivo software.