HauppaugeIrBlaster

HauppaugeIrBlaster is an application that uses Hauppauge ir blaster to control a satellite receiver connected to Windows Media Center

Intro

• Each day around 5:00am, the Dish satellite receiver calls home to get its update. It then restarts itself, requiring the user to press “Select” to go to a channel. MCE doesn’t know it needs to press select, so this causes it to miss channels and recordings.

Features

• Wakes up the satellite receiver from standby mode (tested with Dish Network VIP211K)
• Tunes to a specified channel
• Puts MCE back to sleep if no active recordings are in progress

Credits

• Team MediaPortal: https://www.team-mediaportal.com
• SageTv: https://github.com/google/sagetv/blob/master/third_party/Hauppauge/hcwIRblast.h