Inconsistent Dish 301 w/Haup IR Blaster

[WhollyMindless]

OK, I've been watching for a few days and finally think I've got a handle on this situation. But I will require someone with a bit more experience to see if I'm nuts.

I have a Dish 301 that I'm driving with a Hauppauge IR Remote Blaster. This appears to work just fine during testing on all number formats 1 digit to 4 digits. I've got it nice and slow and I've driven it from my "old box" (yeah, a tivo) for two years.

BUT - here's the weird part. Watching how things go I find that it appears that my system is actually trying to tune the channel more than once and it will mess it up - dropping the first digit is the most common issue. When I turned off my Sage Service it seemed to stop happening - but I didn't look hard enough. I've got a successful recording rate of about 50% right now. I've actually seen it start recording a 1 hour show and then 1/2 an hour into it see it try to tune another station for a program that does not appear on the recording list.

Two questions:
Anyone with a good solid reliable timing numbers for the Hauppauge IR Blaster?

Anyone ever seen this kind of behavior?

Yeah, I'm new. It shows huh?

Wholly

[SHS]

Try add to your IR file RepeatCount 10

[WhollyMindless]

Good call - One thing that people might want to know is that with the Hauppauge IR Blaster and a 301, it will use the StubDefault.ir file.

It seems to have killed the channel tuning reliablity. And since I've turned off the service - which I would much rather use - I've not seen any strange tuning in the middle of shows yet.

[davephan]

I am using a Hauupage PVR-350 with a USB-UIRT. I have a jvc301.ir file that works pretty well.

When I first tired using the USB-UIRT, with the PVR-350 remote, I had a lot of trouble trying to find the right combinations in the IR file.

I also obtained a IR Helper program from a member of the SageTV forum.

The IR-files.zip contains the jvc301.ir and lrnhelper.exe files.

Please let me know if the jvc301.ir file helps, or you are able to improve it's reliablity.

Dave

[WhollyMindless]

Actually, the "RepeatCount 10" added to the StubDefault.ir file really solved the problem. I wasn't using a specific Dish301 ir file.

But thanks for the pointers.

Wholly

[davephan]

Does the repeat count 10 seem to work perfiectly?

Once in awhile SageTV records the wrong channel. Is the repeat count of 10 is more relable than repeat count 5 with the JVC 301 recieiver?

Dave