MCE STB control: Must be possible

[Guest]

I have an MCE 2005 remote + blaster, and STB that MCE wont work with, and a USBUIRT which does control my STB with MediaPortal.

I can't help but think that there MUST be a way to control my STB from MCE with USBUIRT! And maybe girder.

What about this idea:
1. MCE lets you choose your STB from a list of over 700. So I choose one that it knows. Lets call it FooSTB.

2. I set up my USBUIRT to receive signals from a FooSTB remote control.
(I do this by running putting the MCE emitter in front of USBUIRT, running MCE, changing channels 0-9, and learning the codes.)

3. I then set up Girder to receive the FooSTB commands and emit the corresponding commands for my STB for which I have trained it.

4. Now I put the MCE emitter in front of the USBUIRT receiver and the USBUIRT emitter in front of my STB.

Should work no?

[jrhees]

Someone else has tried this with not very good results. The challenge would be that you would need Girder to *receive and store* all of the digits the MCE spits out *before* retransmitting them with the different IR codes. MCE isn't going to give you dead time between each digit to fit them in, so you'd have to build this logic into Girder.

I am currently working on an MCE plugin to do this directly (no Girder, etc. needed), but am unsure when it will be complete nor how well it will work...yet.

-Jon