[mythtv-users] IR transmitter help  Eric Sharkey eric at
lisaneric.org Sun Jul 3 14:18:35 UTC 2011  On Sun, Jul 3, 2011
at 6:47 AM, Kyle Gordon <kyle at lodge.glasgownet.com> wrote: >
Isn't the point here that an IR flash would be obscured by the
already > visible _visible light_ flash?  Yes, that's it
exactly.  I'm well versed in using digital cameras to detect IR
flashes, as I wrote in my original post:       I tried swapping
the emitter with the one      from my old TiVo, which has the
same size jack,      but when I do that I don't see it blinking
either      visibly or in the IR (on a digital camera display).
This technique works well with an emitter that doesn't also emit
a "surprisingly bright" visible light flash.  The TiVo emitter
doesn't blink visibly, so I can verify that that one doesn't
work, but I don't know if that's because of a hardware fault or
a compatibility problem.  My questions to this list are:  Has
anyone tried substituting a TiVo IR emitter into an HP mceusb
unit and had it work?  W