[mythtv] Remote and Cable Box

[Matt Bowman]

Great I am going to load up a new box this weekend and
play with this. I have also looked at Lirc and think
this is the hardware I will be using. Do you have the
Radio Shack part numbers you used to build the
transmitter? Also what Distro are you using?

-M
--- Chris Kleeschulte <kleeschu@mindspring.com> wrote:
> well, from the hardware standpoint...you would need
> a separate IR device to blast the signal to the
> cable box's (or satellite receiver) IR receiver from
> the mythtv box. This part is easy. I built a
> homemade IR tranmitter for less than 15 bucks from
> parts at radioshack to do this. I am currently
> looking for that external program Isaac was talking
> about. I have seen some that will certainly do it,
> but I have not settled on one yet. I got the plans
> for the home made IR transmitter from 
> 
> http://www.lirc.org
> 
> 
> it works as advertised.
> 
> 
> some sat/cable receivers have serial connectors to
> control them if needed, but I am not going there
> because those devices would be very specialized.
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts on the hardware for
> this other than what I have proposed?
> 
> 
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Isaac Richards 
>   To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net 
>   Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 6:17 PM
>   Subject: Re: [mythtv] Remote and Cable Box
> 
> 
>   Yup, see here:
> 
>  
>
http://www.snowman.net/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2002-July/000020.html
> 
>   Essentially, most of the code's there for it, it
> just needs someone that 
>   actually wants the feature to finish it up.
> 
>   Isaac
> 
>   On Tuesday 13 August 2002 03:00 pm, Matt Bowman
> wrote:
>   > Great project!
>   >
>   > Is it currenlty possible to have MythTV change
> the
>   > channel on my cable box, instead of my tuner?
> The
>   > reason I ask is because I have digtial cable,
> however
>   > I only have a analog WinTV tuner card in my PC.
> I have
>   > heard of other windows based software using a
> Actisys
>   > iRDA ( http://www.actisys.com/ac200-220.html )
> to do
>   > this.
>   >
>   > This is what I am thinking. MythTV can be locked
> to a
>   > channel (Example channel 3 or Line in). When you
> use
>   > the remote to change the channel it simply
> (*cough*)
>   > passes it to the digitial box, and the channel
> on teh
>   > digital box is changed. This way I can schedule
>   > recording or programs on digital channels that I
> can
>   > not normally get.
>   >
>   > If this is crazy, or it seems like there is a
> flaw
>   > here please let me know. I am new to coding
> (only past
>   > PHP and light VB) so it might not make an since.
>   >
>   > Thank you,
>   > -M
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >
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