PVR-150 IRBlaster

Periodically, I spend some time on the internet looking for a "simple" and "working" method to let the IRBlaster of my Hauppauge PVR-150 pilot a SKY satellite receiver.
The system is now upgraded to a Mythbuntu 8.04.1 x64.

Recently I've found two interesting hints:

This last post here, and the raw codes for the SKY receiver here (only italian).

rkocher writes:


Remove lirc by running:

"sudo apt-get --purge remove lirc"

To ensure the driver is not still loaded run:

"modprobe -r lirc_i2c"

Then follow the instructions at http://www.blushingpenguin.com/mark/blog/?p=24

which links to the evergreen "Marks' Braindump" blog, which has recently been updated for the recent kernels.

I'll give it a try soon