It seems that Comcast has updated the firmware on our Cisco DTA30's as they no longer respond to channel-change requests from my PVR150 IR blaster (the IR blaster does continue to work with other devices).
I am using LinHES 6.04 and would like to try the latest lirc version 0.8.6 or later that has support for the XMP IR protocol. I might also try the serial blaster, but my question is this:

Is the following the correct way to install the latest lirc version?

1. Temporarily add the following to /etc/pacman.conf:


2. Grab the latest test version from LinHES 7.xx:


3. Remove the line previously added to pacman.conf

4. If it doesn't work, revert to the old version by doing this again after pacman.conf is changed back:


I just wanted to check whether this is likely to work before I hose up my lirc configuration.
For example, I don't know if the latest lirc will be compatible with 6.04, or if the receiver & blaster configuration files in MythVantage will be compatible with the latest lirc, or would need to be updated also.
Thanks for any tips on this.

Check that there isn't something else wrong. I can't think of any reason that Comcast would change the IR receiver to not work with remote controls.

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I have this same problem with Mythbuntu and it happened about the same time...have you found a solution yet? I tried going through all the codes from here (http://www.blushingpenguin.com/mark/lmilk/lircd.conf) but none of them worked. I'm on Mythbuntu 10.04.

Thanks,
Tim