{"id":1171,"date":"2009-03-08T10:03:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T18:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/08\/almost-there\/"},"modified":"2009-03-08T10:04:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T18:04:16","slug":"almost-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/08\/almost-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost there . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my IR blaster from CommandIR arrived. After going to see the movie &#8220;Watchmen&#8221;, I spent the evening setting up the new IR receiver and emitter. Step one: plug in and verify linux saw it. Step one was completed in less than 10 seconds. Step two: add the existence of the CommandIR to the system configuration. Step two took about an hour &#8211; 1 minute to install the upgrade IR control packages, and 59 minutes to edit the config files and prevent linux from loading the old, broken commandIR driver. If I had been smarter about following instructions, that would have gone faster.<\/p>\n<p>Step three: try pressing a button on the comcast remote and see if CommandIR detects it. Step three took less than 5 minutes. Step four: have the CommandIR send remote control commands to the Comcast receiver. This was what I spent the rest of the night on. The things just wouldn&#8217;t send commands the comcast box could see. I then ran a loop test, recommended by the company. I put the IR emitter right up next to the IR receiver on the CommandIR. I turned on the watchdog program, that detects commands being sent to the receiver. I then sent commands&nbsp; to the receiver, but the receiver watchdog program reported nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect a bad emitter. I&#8217;ve contacted the company. I <i><b>think<\/b><\/i> that these emitters are just a stock IR LED with long wires attached to them, but I can&#8217;t verify that so I am hesitant to tinker.<\/p>\n<p>More to come!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=0bf8a75a-f419-4972-956b-b64fccf195c1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my IR blaster from CommandIR arrived. After going to see the movie &#8220;Watchmen&#8221;, I spent the evening setting up the new IR receiver and emitter. Step one: plug in and verify linux saw it. Step one was completed in less than 10 seconds. Step two: add the existence of the CommandIR to the system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computing","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}