usb uirt not working

[glbrown]

pjjelly, it's a line in your sage.properties file in the root sagetv directory. Make sure you shut down, not sleep sage, edit, and start it back up again.

[pjjelly]

i changed it to four, but still no change.

I am lossing hope with find a solution. Maybe i will reformate and work up slowly

PJ

[glbrown]

Let's try something different and get girder out of the loop. Just use sage directly with the uirt and see if that works.

[salsbst]

pjjelly, if you want to post your GML file I'll see if I can see any issues on the Girder side.

[cohnhead]

I too have USB UIRT working perfectly controlling my set top box. It has yet to miss a channel change. I am however using an external IR emitter that is taped to the IR window on the SA box. Although I use Girder for most IR functions, I disable girder when sage awakes, and enables girder when sage sleeps. I have the two delay properties set to 50ms for fast channel changes.

One thing to note is that I am only using the set top box for channels over 100. On our cable system, anything under 100 is analog anyway, so I use the tuner on the 250 for those. This really minimizes the channel change time.

GOod Luck!

[pjjelly]

glbrown-
Ok will try this in a couple hours when i get home

salsbst-
Thanks I will do that. I am not sure girder setup is the best. Its simple for now, just the cable box. However i copyed it from someone elses GML.

Thanks you

PJ

[pjjelly]

Salsbst-
Actually while read the fourms i noticed ur GML. Its ur GML i am using but i deleted everything that i am not using. It happens to be everything excpt the SageTv Control and cable box transmition.

When i get home later i will post it thou.

PJ

[pjjelly]

Here is the GML as requested.

When i don't use girder, nothing happens.

Any ideas on why??

[salsbst]

You have deleted the event and associated command named, "Global-Scripts-Pause".

Here is the script that runs when SageTV wants to change the channel:

l = strlen(pld1);
for i = 1,l-1 do
s = strsub(pld1,i,i)
TriggerEvent("cable-motorola-"..s,18);
TriggerEvent("Global-Scripts-Pause",18,1200);
end
s = strsub(pld1,l,l)
TriggerEvent("cable-motorola-"..s,18);
TriggerEvent("Global-Scripts-Pause",18,1500);
TriggerEvent("cable-motorola-enter",18);
TriggerEvent("Global-Scripts-Pause",18,1500);
TriggerEvent("cable-motorola-exit",18);

If the event named "Global-Scripts-Pause" doesn't exist, there aren't going to be any pauses between IR signals. If you restore that event and its command, you should be good to go.

[salsbst]

And by the way, you can tweak the pause lengths by editing the last parameter in those calls to the pause event.

[pjjelly]

Thanks salsbst. I cant wait till i get home to try this out.

PJ

[pjjelly]

OK, did what u said and i am in the same boat. *sigh* Ok i think some where in setting this all up (Sage and the PC) i may have messed it up cause i dont think it should be this difficult
PJ

[salsbst]

please post your GML again. Also, make sure that you have the WinLUAEx plugin installed ( http://www.girder.nl/plugins.php ) and loaded into Girder (this can be done in the settings window).

[pjjelly]

The WinLUAEx plugin is installed and running.

Here is to another shot.


PJ

[salsbst]

Something is a little off in the GML. The last parameter in the TriggerEvent calls cannot be greater than 1000. One would not want them greater than 1000 anyway, since 1000 signifies 1 second, which is much longer than necessary.

Try changing 1200 to 200 and 1500 to 500 in the Script for SageSetExternalChannel.

[pjjelly]

it was that and it would send the signal to quick for the STB to pick up. Then i set it to 700 and seem to work but i still could not get the double digital to be recived by the STB.

PJ

[salsbst]

Hmm... that's odd. Sounds like the script is now running properly if you are able to control the delays. 700 should be more than enough. Just keep each one at or under 1000 and if you really want to go higher add another call to the sleep function.

I wonder if your USB-UIRT girder plugin is set up right. I know there are settings for controling how it sends the signal. I can look at what my settings are tonight when I get home.

Also, the most reliable way to get the signal to the box is an external emitter taped (with black tape) directly to the spot on the box that contains the IR receiver (to the right of the channel numbers), so if you can do that you will be helping your cause.

[pjjelly]

bump

[salsbst]

Originally posted by salsbst
I know there are settings for controling how it sends the signal. I can look at what my settings are tonight when I get home.

Checked out the settings and in fact the are all embedded in the command so I'm still at a loss as to why you're having trouble. If you don't have an external emitter, you might try pointing the USB-UIRT right at the cable box from about a foot away just to see if that helps. Other than that I'm stumped.