Irl Transfer

Adele,

Look for another post re: HD Tivo. I will only speak for myself: I found that a difficult device to get solidly under control, especially for favorites. But I now have at least 5 of them working very well (NXI and NI-3000/4000's).

My IRL and sample code are in the other post, as well as some very good suggestions from others on favorites code.

Bill Ravenel

shr00m-dew wrote:

Aside from the additional programming needed to add all the TIVO specific functions, that's it. All you really need todo is send the IR, no reboot needed.

Kevin D.

Actually, I've once or twice had to reboot an NI before the IR file I had just loaded would work. I have yet to detect the pattern for this failure, but if you ever have an issue iwth a newly loaded IR file, try rebooting.

Irl Transfer

I don't use the NI controllers a great deal but recently we used one on a job and I ran into similar problems with the IR on a Dish Network DVR device. We captured the IR codes using IRIS and then loaded the file onto IR port #2. It worked great for about an hour and then the IR port hung (note: we use SP for our IR driver). When the IR port hung, we were hitting the device pretty hard changing channels including many of the Sirius music channels which require 4-digit channel codes. Once the port hung, we had to re-boot to restore normal operation to the port. It happened again and after that, we moved the IR file in question (and of course the device assignment) to a different port on the NI and we have not had a problem since then. There seems to be nothing wrong with the IR file and the Tivo/DVR module has been used for years without problems so we too felt the anomaly was NI specific. If the customer reported additional problems, we were going to add an NXC-IRS4 in a module shell and use it for the IR port instead of the NI. We have had great luck with them with the IR files/devices for Dish and Direct DVRs.

Interesting to hear that others might be having similar problems.

Reese