Blasting without IRSS (1 Viewer)

[ijourneaux]

I was wondering if there might be a way to blast a channel to a STB without using IRSS? I have had not end to issues getting IRSS to play nice with EventGhost and my USB-UIRT. Perhaps a utility that could be called to blast the channel numbers? Perhaps send an event to Eventghost so that it can blast the channel number via the USB-UIRT? Not using EVentGhost is not an option as I us it for more than just the HTPC functionality

Appreciate any guidance.

 

[ijourneaux]

After much putzing, I was finally able to get IRSS and EVentGhost to play well and geting TVServer to correctly change channels on my set top box. IRSS needs to be installed as a program (and not a service as recommended). When IRSS is installed as a service, EventGhost can not connect to the USB-UIRT even though the USB-UIRT allows multiple connections.

I was able to get the TV3 blaster plugin to work. It requried changes to both the stb configuration tab in the TV3blaster configuration page (not unexpected). Everything would work fine from the TV3 Blaster config page when I tested channel changing from there but if I when to Channel Preview I wouldn't get the correct channel on the stb. This required a change in the USB-UIRT configuration in IRSS. Once that was done, things seemed to work correctly.

Running IRSS as a program is a little interesting. If you make any changes to the IRSS configuration, it requires that IRSS be restarted. When IRSS is restarted, it comes back in off mode so you have to go into the configuration and click on the play button to start it up. I am hoping it will start automatically when I launch it after rebooting the computer.