I’ve been maintaining a PVR350 on an old Dell 2.4GHz since forever. Latest updates (to MythTV 24.1, and licrd 0.9.0.7) have made big changes. But it’s all working again, including a serial IR blaster. The following is just for my easy reference, and anyone else who now finds their Grey Hauppauge remote control is emitting [...]

The Situation I have a Hauppauge PVR350 card, which includes an IR receiver (connected via a 2.5mm socket on the card), but I also need to control an external cable box via an IR blaster (bought from irblaster.info), and have COM1 free. Actually, since I have a Belkin MediaPilot keyboard (mostly) working, I won’t need [...]

Simple schematic for building serial interface : http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~mozgic/UIR/http://www.lirc.org/receivers.html On 9-pin Serial plug :Ground : Pin 5Data : Pin 1 (actually DCD) Existing Hauppauge interface :http://www.irblaster.info/hauppauge_ir.html 2.5mm ConnectorTSOP 2238 IR ReceiverTip VCCRing SignalShield Ground VSOP (or Everlight) IRM2238http://www.datasheetarchive.com/preview/1808114.htmlVCC=5V, 38KHz USB Pinout :http://pinouts.ru/SerialPortsCables/usb_cable_pinout.shtmlPin 1 : VCC (+5V)Pin 2 : Data-Pin 3 : Data+Pin 4 : Ground Even [...]

Upgrade to 2.6.22 seems to break *everything* in the ivtv suite. It all disappeared from the rpms, so we need to install from source. ivtv ivtv-fb ivtv-xdriver ivtvfbctl (now gone) In particular, some web posts indicate that support for the PVR-350 has been eliminated somehow. This doesn’t seem to be completely true – but maybe [...]

Aim : Enable a lightly used Linux machine to additionally host a MythTV video card. Major Issues : Upgrade to 2.6.22 breaks *everything* : ivtv ivtv-fb ivtv-xdriver ivtvfb-ctl (now gone) Want to have two independent displays (two simultaneous X servers running) Complex /etc/X11/xorg.conf Need to use evdev to have dual keyboards Toy with /etc/gdm/custom.conf (not [...]