[mythtv-users] Re:Adding a second satellite/cable box

Jim Paris jim at jtan.com
Tue Nov 18 03:44:11 EST 2003


> What I just said was wrong with regard to the
> satellite box.  I just rechecked my Tivo setup and saw
> that I did have to tell it specifically that I was
> using serial and not IR, so probably the codes aren't
> identical.
> 
> I am sure that I was able to just swap the IR pigtail
> for the serial cable with the cable box, however I
> can't verify that any more.  I did have a lot of
> problems with the DCT-2000 missing digits in the
> channel change both with serial and IR.  This was
> infuriating to have scheduled a recording and end up
> with a program on a different channel and was one of
> the reasons I changed providers.

To use IR, use LIRC.  To use the serial port, use dct-channel in the
MythTV contrib directory.  The CVS version is pretty good at making
sure the channel changes properly.

-jim


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