EXEtuner Plugin for LIRC and Motorola STB

[harrijay]

Well I came to the realization that the only way anyone is going to get any external Tuner plugin support is if someone ported one from windows or just wrote one from scratch so I decided to do just that. I have currently created a port of the MultiDCTTunerDLL that sage uses in windows the only thing i have not finished is the ability to get all of the info from the DLL as compared to having hard coded values. Right now it does work with my DCT2224 very reliably so if anyone is interested in using this let me know and i can post the Shared Object along with info on how to use this. My next job is to fix the LIRCTuner plugin so LIRC can be used since the one that was posted on the forums didn't work. Anyone who is interested please post.

[jvbunte]

I am interested in this if you are still around.... OP was 07 .

[stuckless]

I've posted the source for the LIRCTuner . I rebuilt it and it works great on my unbuntu setup.

[jvbunte]

Does it support serial control of a DCT2xxx or just through LIRC?

[stuckless]

Does it support serial control of a DCT2xxx or just through LIRC?

Not sure if this was directed at me... but the LIRCTuner only supports lirc.

[ltburch2000]

Can it work, yes. Does it work no.

Here is what I had to do I noticed the tuner didn't work as expected when sent the signals. Via experimentation I confirmed I needed to do a ok/select at the end of the sequence. I also found that the built in socket based communications seemed to malfunction for some reason. So I replaced the PlayCommand function with the following

static int playCommandCount = 0;
static char channel[3];

void PlayCommand (int devHandle, remote *remote, unsigned char *name, int tx_repeats)
{
info("PlayCommand");
info(name);

channel[playCommandCount]=*name;

playCommandCount++;

if (playCommandCount != 3) {
return;
}

playCommandCount = 0;

char cmd[1024];
// swap for irsend
sprintf(cmd, "irsend SEND_ONCE %s %c %c %c ok/select\n", remote->name, channel[0], channel[1], channel[2]);
system(cmd);


}

What this does is aggregate the 3 digit channel (it is zero padded) before sending it all at once via irsend with an ok/select at the end.

Yes quite a hassle but after doing this it works GREAT with my Comcast STB.

[stuckless]

@ltburch2000 - You may want to check out the External Command Tuner for Linux. It currently has support for single digit tuning and macro tuning (all digits as once).

The External Command Tuner was a project that I forked off the original Lirc Tuner since I had issues with the lirc code. The installation wiki for the modified external command tuner uses irsend in it's examples, since I use lirc via the irsend command.