Sleeping Cablebox

[shodge]

Hi,
I have a cable box which goes to sleep after 8 hrs of inactivity. I have a 250 capture card with the IRBlaster to control the stb. I've found that if my stb is sleeping, I can wake it instantly, by transmitting the enter or ok from the original remote.

Sage seem to have a perfect solution. The GUI has a entry for channel change prefix code and confirm codes. I seen this and I said "Great!". My intent was to ad a prefix code of 'ok' and see if that solved my problem. Well when I select this menu item or any other in the GUI for IR control - I have no options.

I'm guessing this is because I'm using the IRBlaster. Anyone solve this iisue any other way? I've read that IRBlaster uses StubDevice.ir - any hints if I can accomplish this through this file?

Thanks,
Stan

[Fuzzy]

Not sure about whether the IRBlaster for your card supports those features of sage, but I know the USB-UIRT works great with it.

As antoher option, have you checked to see if your STB has an option to disable the sleep?

[shodge]

Thanks for the reply...

No sleep disable...

I figured USB-UIRT would fix the issue, but I am attempting not to spend hardware dollars now.

-Stan