beta net2hipsend

[steve232]

I haven't had much time to work on the setup, NH is having a rare taste of spring, so i'm outside cleaning up after the storms we had.

What seem to be happening is when I edit the channel/ir code in HIP, select the main, left or right emitter, then test the code, the correct emitter fires.

If I exit, and try it again in web interface, or your code in a command line, all three emitters fire.

If I open HIP and the edit screen and test the code, all three fire.

Seems I'm not or HIP isn't saving the emitter channel I've selected.

Steve

[pBS]

hmmm,maybe need to save before exiting...i know it doesn't always save when changed, you have to do it yourself..
check the .ini to see what's in there...may be able to manually edit it..

looking at my mce codes,mine has port# in .ini file:
[X1.002] [digit #1-remote#2]
RID=2 [remote id]
BID=1 [digit id]
FILENAME=#1.STB2 [filename]
LABEL=#1 [label in hip]
PORT=0 [PORT#] [0=all]

what do yours look like?

[steve232]

My zip file is attached a a few replies back.

I do not have a Port # anywhere.

Steve

[pBS]

ahhh, had to go a few back...
try adding a PORT=1 to a digit to see what happens..

otherwise, ask someone who has uirt working for multiple ports for their .ini...
i'm thinking it's just not adding the port part wherever it goes..

[pBS]

try this driver for your usbuirt....the latest i found was much earlier than this one[2 years earlier!] , and this is the one that hip guy uses to test...so may be what you need..
http://forums.dvbowners.com/index.php?showtopic=9062

[steve232]

HIP is still broken. Added the PORT=1, PORT=2, still blasts to all three emitters.

I'm testing at the lowest level, 1 channel defined for each remote.

I select and edit a remote.channel, then chose center, left or right.
When tested HIP selects the proper emitter.

Then I select the second remote.channel, chose a different emitter, test. that works.

He's the problem, when I go back to the first remote.channel, and edit it, it now has the emitter setting of the second remote.

I have an extra uirt I can send you or someone to play with. I've been playing with this stuff a long time and never been able to not work around an issue with some help.
But with the lack of replies it would appear I'm the only one that appears to have tried to get all three ports working on the uirt.

I know all three port will work, as I've have them working with the gbpvr built-in changer. Well it works until it doesn't.

All that you need to test this is a digital camera, an uirt and one channel of codes.

Steve

[pBS]

i would drop a note to HIP author, sounds like it's just not saving..
may take a month to get a fix..but may just be some params too..

i'd check previous HIP versions, maybe just after mention of uirt zone mapping addition..
[he may have regressed zone mapping in latest vers.]
the other day when i checked the site downloads were down tho..

hmmm,looks like the latest is the first to have zone selection...maybe that's why noone is using it, it doesnt work yet?
sounds like he forgot to put in the saving of params for blasting, but the mechanisms are all there..and you want the latest version, as it fixes some resume issues with uirt..
if you make a second remote and copy code from first one, and change eye and save, do the entries look identical in the .ini?

yea, give Peter at BTMI a shout...i'm sure it's something simple..
since the selection works from within hip, it's got to be the saving..

i found a cmdline util...uutx_0_3.zip to blast manually from cmd line...
http://forums.x10.com/index.php?PHPSESSI...9#msg68869
it should use multizone support also if edited with a "Z1" at beginning,it's really simple...
or use the gbpvr codes directly, commenting out the first couple of gbpvr specific lines..
http://www.etcwiki.org/dl/uutx_0_3.zip
quickie gui to learn with..
http://www.usbuirt.com/api_example_code.zip

hope that helps...
if cctx works with zones, i can make you a digit separator to blast single digits for ya...like my mceblast util...so you can just make digits 0-9 for cctx to send..
[turns "blast.exe 123" into cctx 1 cctx 2 cctx 3]

also...http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post254737

[ottoguy]

Tried the net2hipsend version 2 with remote name tonight. Looks like the name can't have a - in the name? Not a big deal just took a bit to figure out.


I was having some strange behavior that my STB would just stop responding to the commands sent by HIP. It seems random when it stops working and starts again. I see HIP sending something because i see the ir transmitter flashing. However if I use the STB remote it always works.

I tried out the new version of net2hipsend to see if maybe there was something better.

[pBS]

yea, i think it converts - to _ so you have to use the short_name version it shows you when setting up..[i knew there was some reason it showed 2 vers of remote name]
but from what i remember, only the short name can be used from web server,so that's what i use..
how was the timing on the blasts you saw before? was it rythmic? or a pause after 2 blasts, then the third? this solves that situation..
reliability usually points me to the learned codes...sometimes relearning them with fresh batteries will do wonders..

well, let me know how it goes...this one's a tiny bit slower, so try first ver if you don't have uirt and want real speed...tho it's pretty zippy as is..

[steve232]

pBS, uutx seems to work.

C:\uutc>uutx.exe -fDish1.dat 7

C:\uutc>uutx.exe -fDish1.dat 7

C:\uutc>uutx.exe -fDish2.dat 7


It selects the correct emitter and will change the channel on the box.
I'm not sure where to go next.

Thanks
Steve

Edit:

OK I have the .bat file working and changing channels on the STB.

I guess the next thing is add something in the gb config. But I'm done for the night.