Uising USB-Uirt with Sage and Girder

[ldavis]

I am using my usbuirt both with girder and with SageTV. One thing that I would like to do (but cannot figure out how to do this from within SageTV) is, after a channel change and an enter (all sent by Sage), I would like to "clear" the Satellite OSD from the screen. I do not see any way to do this from within Sage since you can only send one command after the channel number(s) (and that command must be an enter in my case). What I have unsucessfully tried to do is have the usbuirt see the "enter" command(that is sent though the same usbuirt) and trigger a "clear" event within girder. Is this possible or is there another way.

[jrhees]

Unfortunately, that method won't work since the USB-UIRT cannot receive IR when it is transmitting.

-Jon

[fieldeffect]

How about the following idea:

- use the EXETuner plugin in Sage to change channel
- Set the registry entry for the EXETuner plugin so that instead of calling the channel change program it calls a batch file (still passing the channel number as an argument).
- Have your batch file call the channel change program, then sleep for a second or so, then run the command to clear your OSD.

I'm doing something similar (except that I did it just to get my channel change program to run completely silently and not pop up in front of Sage).

Nick.