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<blockquote data-quote="karhill" data-source="post: 976942" data-attributes="member: 138559">Kiwi:Your comments got me looking around, and I think I've solved the problem, but I remain confused about blaster components.&nbsp;First the solution:1) I was configuring the USB-UIRT blasting through the MP TV server configuration application (i.e. the &quot;TV3 blaster plugin for IR Server&quot; listed in plugins).&nbsp; That was clearly necessary to get blasting mapped to each TV card, but I was still getting 3 digits blasted for each channel digit. (e.g. channel &quot;2&quot; would get blasted as &quot;222&quot;).2) I opened the IRSS tray applet, selected the configuration option, and then in the list of IR blasters supported, I found the USB-UIRT entry and clicked on the &quot;configure&quot; button for that IR blaster.&nbsp; A simple dialog box opened that had only 3 entries, one being &quot;repeat count&quot;, which was indeed, set at 3.&nbsp; Changing this repeat count to 1 has worked (e.g. channel &quot;2&quot; now gets blasted as &quot;2&quot;).&nbsp; So the &quot;repeat count&quot; entry in the TV3 Blaster plugin configuration is either ignored, or is overridden by the IRSS tray applet, or some combination of the two.&nbsp;So I remain a bit confused by the blaster components.&nbsp; I'm not clear what you mean by the &quot;built in IR blaster tvserver plugin.&quot;&nbsp; I'm also not clear if both the TV3 blaster plugin is something different from the IRSS (since they seem to work somewhat independently), or if TV3 blaster is part of IRSS--it's listed in the MP TV server configuration program as &quot;TV3 blaster plugin for IR Server&quot;, which I assume means IRSS.&nbsp;I may try uninstalling IRSS and see if I still have a TV3 blaster plugin&quot; in the TV server configuration.&nbsp; I'm not at all clear if IRSS is needed to just blast channel numbers at a STB using a USB-UIRT.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="karhill, post: 976942, member: 138559"] Kiwi: Your comments got me looking around, and I think I've solved the problem, but I remain confused about blaster components. First the solution: 1) I was configuring the USB-UIRT blasting through the MP TV server configuration application (i.e. the "TV3 blaster plugin for IR Server" listed in plugins). That was clearly necessary to get blasting mapped to each TV card, but I was still getting 3 digits blasted for each channel digit. (e.g. channel "2" would get blasted as "222"). 2) I opened the IRSS tray applet, selected the configuration option, and then in the list of IR blasters supported, I found the USB-UIRT entry and clicked on the "configure" button for that IR blaster. A simple dialog box opened that had only 3 entries, one being "repeat count", which was indeed, set at 3. Changing this repeat count to 1 has worked (e.g. channel "2" now gets blasted as "2"). So the "repeat count" entry in the TV3 Blaster plugin configuration is either ignored, or is overridden by the IRSS tray applet, or some combination of the two. So I remain a bit confused by the blaster components. I'm not clear what you mean by the "built in IR blaster tvserver plugin." I'm also not clear if both the TV3 blaster plugin is something different from the IRSS (since they seem to work somewhat independently), or if TV3 blaster is part of IRSS--it's listed in the MP TV server configuration program as "TV3 blaster plugin for IR Server", which I assume means IRSS. I may try uninstalling IRSS and see if I still have a TV3 blaster plugin" in the TV server configuration. I'm not at all clear if IRSS is needed to just blast channel numbers at a STB using a USB-UIRT. [/QUOTE]

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