IR blaster and Touch

[linvale]

Thanks Felix. The information is very helpfuil and of course, disappointing. The IR learning and ability to repeat RAW codes is so useful and your plug in works so well - maybe I should be shopping for Classics, they may well become even more desirable on this basis alone.

[crazyj]

ok, the list of things that I thought the touch could handle is getting shorter and shorter. I think my pre-order is getting cancelled in favour of an SB3 and a server, if I can find an SB3 for cheap enough.

EDIT: Maybe I'm jumping the gun here. Can someone explain to me what the Touch will do out of the box with IR? If I'm pointing my AV-receiver's remote at the Touch, will it pass through the signal as-received, to my AV-receiver, if I have either a blaster-emitter or a direct connection to the receiver? (yamaha nec-IR chip I believe)

[luny]

Well, I already have my Touch, but I'm veryy much interested in the IR Blaster plugin for the Touch.
Can anybody tell me about the status??

[fcm4711]

Hi there

At the moment (as of 7.5.0) IR Blaster does not work on SB Touch.

IR Blaster plugin needs to be adapted to work with SB Touch. Please see here: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12997

and the firmware running on SB Touch needs to be modified too, see here: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15826

Best Regards
Felix

[bernt]

Voted for the bugs. IR-blaster on Touch is a must (for me).

[mctigercom]

I have searched and not found the answer yet. Is the SB Radio going to be able to use IR Blaster in the future? I've seen the notes about the RAW codes being worked on for the Touch, but will those enhancements be applied to the Radio too?

[aubuti]

Don't consider me an authoritative source on this, but my reading of the comments for bug 12997 is that the SB Radio does not have the hardware required for IR blasting. Specifically, the first two comments in the bug (note that "Baby" is the nickname for Radio (as in Baby Boom), and that Caleb was one of the lead developers for the Radio).

Felix: Caleb: I know hardware supports IR Blasting on Fab4. How about Baby?

Caleb: Nope.  Baby-no-blasty.

Not having the hardware makes sense to me, considering that unlike the Touch, the Radio is seldom connected to an amp or other IR-capable device that would need the IR-Blaster functionality.

[mctigercom]

Yeah, I can see your point. I currently use an SB3 to IR Blast to a DVD and Tivo hidden in a cabinet. I also use the IR Blaster to run an alarm sequence in the morning. We wake up to Pandora and then after 10 min, the SB3 shuts down and turns on the TV that's already tuned to CNN. The alarms are stored in a db and fired off using perl scripts that run the commands from the CLI. Very neat, tidy and reliable for the couple of years that we've been doing it.

Anyhow, no worries. I'll keep using the SB3 for now and use the Radio around the house.

[luny]

any progress on the developments to enable IR Blaster for the Touch?

In fact, I'm waiting for this to move my SB3 to another room.
I now have a synched setup where the SB3 and Touch are standing next to eachother, IR Blaster being the only reason for the SB3 to be there to control my amp.

[ericj]

I finally pulled the trigger on a SB touch, but much to my chagrin, found out that it does not support RAW codes for IRBlaster. I assume that this is still the case, and that it will remain so....
Sadly, the Touch will go back.
Thanks.