Direct control of Hauppauge IR blaster?

[timg11]

Does anybody have details on the API to the HCWIRBlaster.dll? I believe this is the one used for the Hauppauge IR blasters. I need to write my own program to talk to it and send some commands to "wake up" the SA 8300HDC prior to SageTV attempting to set the channel for a HD-PVR recording.

Alternatively, is there a command-line program that can control the Hauppauge IR blaster? (Like the channel.exe program does for Firewire channel changing).

[judoGTI]

Originally Posted by timg11

Does anybody have details on the API to the HCWIRBlaster.dll? I believe this is the one used for the Hauppauge IR blasters. I need to write my own program to talk to it and send some commands to "wake up" the SA 8300HDC prior to SageTV attempting to set the channel for a HD-PVR recording.

Alternatively, is there a command-line program that can control the Hauppauge IR blaster? (Like the channel.exe program does for Firewire channel changing).

Hey did you ever figure this one out? Im in the same boat as you for needing to wake up my STB before a channel change.

Ive been doing a lot of reading, there may be a way with utility called SendMessage but I havent tested it. There is also a user on here named StephaneM that wrote another IR Blaster controler (info here: http://www.lmgestion.net/@en-us/4/22/60/article.asp) but I havent had a chance to really dig into it.

[Savage1701]

Originally Posted by timg11

Does anybody have details on the API to the HCWIRBlaster.dll? I believe this is the one used for the Hauppauge IR blasters. I need to write my own program to talk to it and send some commands to "wake up" the SA 8300HDC prior to SageTV attempting to set the channel for a HD-PVR recording.

Alternatively, is there a command-line program that can control the Hauppauge IR blaster? (Like the channel.exe program does for Firewire channel changing).

I only know of the one shadeblue wrote for the USB-UIRT. But I can tell you, it works. It keeps my Dish receiver "alive", it's easy to customize, it runs as a service, it slices, it dices, it juliennes...

Seriously, if it fits for you, a $55 USB-UIRT is worth it. Add Shadeblue's utility, read your "keep alive" code into its utility (mine is "enter"), paste that code into the properties file, change/add/delete the times to send it, and you are good to go. You can also run it from a DOS window to troubleshoot it while you are getting it the way you want it.

The tiniest of the tiniest of downsides - once in a great while, it will send that "enter" code while a show is being recorded, and it will bring up the translucent channel banner. Big deal.

I know you weren't looking for that answer per se, but everyone in here fights so much with Hauppauge IR's since many have more than one Hauppauge tuner that goes after that single IR channel.

[judoGTI]

Originally Posted by Savage1701

I only know of the one shadeblue wrote for the USB-UIRT. But I can tell you, it works. It keeps my Dish receiver "alive", it's easy to customize, it runs as a service, it slices, it dices, it juliennes...

Seriously, if it fits for you, a $55 USB-UIRT is worth it. Add Shadeblue's utility, read your "keep alive" code into its utility (mine is "enter"), paste that code into the properties file, change/add/delete the times to send it, and you are good to go. You can also run it from a DOS window to troubleshoot it while you are getting it the way you want it.

The tiniest of the tiniest of downsides - once in a great while, it will send that "enter" code while a show is being recorded, and it will bring up the translucent channel banner. Big deal.

I know you weren't looking for that answer per se, but everyone in here fights so much with Hauppauge IR's since many have more than one Hauppauge tuner that goes after that single IR channel.

Thanks for the info. Do you know if you can use IR Blaster and USB-UIRT at the same time? If I can schedule UIRT to send an Enter command every 3 hours and also let Sage control the blaster for the rest of my recordings that would be perfect.

[Zladotimov]

Ok, the original post date is a while ago, but fwiw, there is (or at least there used to be) a little tool in the gb-pvr (now called nextpvr or something) package called "haupblast.exe", which is a command line tool that takes regular digits as arguments (i.e. "haupblast.exe 1"). Works fine for waking up my stb from standby.