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Multiple Hauppauge Colossus cards -- pre- and post-recording behavior?
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<blockquote data-quote="Karyudo" data-source="post: 1050564" data-attributes="member: 65921"><p>OK, it seems MP and TV Server work exactly how I thought they should, until I was confused by the oddities:</p><p></p><p>• Have to install MP in order to install the Schedules Direct plugin in TV Server. I didn't want to install MP in the first place, and tried to avoid it, but couldn't install the plugin installer without it! So somehow I got the impression that MP and TV Server were more entangled than they should be. You've confirmed they are. Which is nuts.</p><p></p><p>• The USB-UIRT tab under 'Remotes' in MP allows setting up of blasting for an STB. The 'Test' button in that same setup page takes as an argument a channel number, which is blasted to the STB using the USB-UIRT. So I'd say it was a pretty reasonable guess that MP was now handling IR blasting for TV Server -- despite it not being how I'd first assumed that MP worked. It's nuts that STB blasting is configured in MP, but then not used to actually blast an STB.</p><p></p><p>• Most of the wiki pages describing blasting, etc., are dated 2010, and are marked as being out-of-date, and needing rewrites, updates, or more detail. So again, it seemed pretty reasonable to disregard anything in the wiki. Or, more accurately, to use the wiki to understand how things definitely *didn't* work anymore.</p><p></p><p>So now that I know that it's MP that's a bit nuts, and not me, I'll be able to focus in the right areas. Thanks for confirming!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, I did -- with WinLIRC or sagechanger.exe (the FireWire app); can't remember which. But I couldn't figure out how to have the second STB blasted/changed with either of those two (partial) solutions. More forum posts seemed to be about USB-UIRT than any other IR/blasting option, so I thought there might be a nice, simple solution there.</p><p></p><p>Do you know if anybody on the dev team has any information about people who have used WinLIRC or USB-UIRT to blast more than one STB under IRSS? I'm guessing not, otherwise you'd have pointed me there already. (Blasting n>1 STBs is what I was thinking of when I said "more generic," by the way. Because otherwise, you're right: it's nicely modular and generic.)</p><p></p><p>Who's developing IRSS? I'm sort of surprised nobody has jumped in on this thread to sort things out much earlier. Because clearly I don't know what I'm doing, and you've stated on more than one occasion that on the IRSS side, neither do you, really. Is there source code? I have no formal idea what I'm doing in any programming language, but I've learned how to make things work in several previous instances. Configuring and calling a third-party piece of IR-blasting hardware shouldn't be rocket surgery, should it? (Not a rhetorical question: IRSS must be the easy part to tackle, amirite?)</p><p></p><p>One of the things that I find really tough about configuring IRSS is having to work with no examples or robust documentation. It feels like nobody has ever confirmed that some of these plugins actually work. Or maybe couldn't, because of not having the hardware to try? Well, I've got hardware and interest....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Karyudo, post: 1050564, member: 65921"] OK, it seems MP and TV Server work exactly how I thought they should, until I was confused by the oddities: • Have to install MP in order to install the Schedules Direct plugin in TV Server. I didn't want to install MP in the first place, and tried to avoid it, but couldn't install the plugin installer without it! So somehow I got the impression that MP and TV Server were more entangled than they should be. You've confirmed they are. Which is nuts. • The USB-UIRT tab under 'Remotes' in MP allows setting up of blasting for an STB. The 'Test' button in that same setup page takes as an argument a channel number, which is blasted to the STB using the USB-UIRT. So I'd say it was a pretty reasonable guess that MP was now handling IR blasting for TV Server -- despite it not being how I'd first assumed that MP worked. It's nuts that STB blasting is configured in MP, but then not used to actually blast an STB. • Most of the wiki pages describing blasting, etc., are dated 2010, and are marked as being out-of-date, and needing rewrites, updates, or more detail. So again, it seemed pretty reasonable to disregard anything in the wiki. Or, more accurately, to use the wiki to understand how things definitely *didn't* work anymore. So now that I know that it's MP that's a bit nuts, and not me, I'll be able to focus in the right areas. Thanks for confirming! Yeah, I did -- with WinLIRC or sagechanger.exe (the FireWire app); can't remember which. But I couldn't figure out how to have the second STB blasted/changed with either of those two (partial) solutions. More forum posts seemed to be about USB-UIRT than any other IR/blasting option, so I thought there might be a nice, simple solution there. Do you know if anybody on the dev team has any information about people who have used WinLIRC or USB-UIRT to blast more than one STB under IRSS? I'm guessing not, otherwise you'd have pointed me there already. (Blasting n>1 STBs is what I was thinking of when I said "more generic," by the way. Because otherwise, you're right: it's nicely modular and generic.) Who's developing IRSS? I'm sort of surprised nobody has jumped in on this thread to sort things out much earlier. Because clearly I don't know what I'm doing, and you've stated on more than one occasion that on the IRSS side, neither do you, really. Is there source code? I have no formal idea what I'm doing in any programming language, but I've learned how to make things work in several previous instances. Configuring and calling a third-party piece of IR-blasting hardware shouldn't be rocket surgery, should it? (Not a rhetorical question: IRSS must be the easy part to tackle, amirite?) One of the things that I find really tough about configuring IRSS is having to work with no examples or robust documentation. It feels like nobody has ever confirmed that some of these plugins actually work. Or maybe couldn't, because of not having the hardware to try? Well, I've got hardware and interest.... [/QUOTE]
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