IR Codes

[number6]

Well i'm keen to build up a repository of IR codes for various STB's in NZ. Who's keen to buy a pronto remote and go about it? hehe no takers?

Seriously, i'll contribute say $40 towards someone buy a remote and doing their best to make as many codes as they can, and ideally keen to lend it to others to help make codes too.

How about we start with a list of the STB's for starters. eg what boxes (make/model) are there for Saturn, Sky Digital. anyone got any dirt on Sky boxes or sky in general? heh

Hmm, I saw a post on This Link about someone creating a TCL app to remove the Sky+ Red-Dot they get in the UK.
In one of the posts, someone showed a brief snippet of code using irtest
to send IR data.

There is also This post on Minnies oztivo maillist archive about using IR Test to capture the information from other remote controls.

switcherstart -k
irest -t /dev/ttyS0 -l
Will output something like:
174.0000.1 85.0175.0 10.0261.1 10.0272.0 10.0283.1 9.0294.0 10.0304.1
10.0315.0
10.0326.1 10.0337.0 9.0348.1 10.0358.0 11.0369.1 9.0381.0 9.0391.1
10.0401.0
11.0412.1 9.0424.0 9.0434.1 11.0444.0 9.0456.1 10.0466.0 10.0477.1
10.0488.0
9.0499.1 10.0509.0 10.0520.1 32.0531.0 9.0564.1 10.0574.0 10.0585.1
10.0596.0
9.0607.1 10.0617.0 10.0628.1 32.0639.0 9.0672.1 32.0682.0 9.0715.1
10.0725.0
11.0736.1 9.0748.0 9.0758.1 11.0768.0 9.0780.1 10.0790.0 10.0801.1
10.0812.0
9.0823.1 10.0833.0 10.0844.1 10.0855.0 9.0866.1 10.0876.0 10.0887.1
32.0898.0
9.0931.1 32.0941.0 9.0974.1 32.0984.0 11.1017.1 30.1029.0 10.1060.1
32.1071.0
10.1104.1 31.1115.0 10.1147.1 125.1158.0

174.0000.1 42.0175.0 10.0218.1 122.0229.0

Which looks similar to whats in the IR database in the Tivo MFS for each digit.
[without the leading 2 numbers which encode the frequency of the IR].

So, you can probably skip the Pronto and just use the Tivo to build your code database.

You jusy have to kill the "switcher" process to do this (swticherstart -k), then reboot your TiVo afterwards to restore normal operation.

FWIW - My Sky DigitalDecoder is a Pace, I use the UK Tivo "Pace" STB setting and find the "medium" setting works best. Same for my US Tivos.

Oh, yes, before anyone asks about the Sky UHF Decoder - forget it, the codes change on that remote with every button press and cannot be learned or played back by the Tivo AFAIK.