[mythtv-users] mythtv, lirc, and DCT 2000

[Joshua Goldenhar]

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 00:39, Jim Paris wrote:
> > > What's the optimal method to get mythtv to coexist with a Moto DCT 2224
> > > tuner?
> > 
> > Look in mythtv/contrib/ and you'll see 2 gzipped tarballs relating to
> > this... one is the Python scripts, one is a C program.  More people are
> > currently using the Python scripts successfully, but that should change
> > over time as the latter code is eventually tested by more people...
> 
> I just finished a new version of dct-channel that should fix the
> problem that both Josh and David were having with their boxes (which
> had an older firmware revision; your problem actually looked the same,
> Ian, so I wonder if you got a new firmware pushed to your box?)
> 
> The new version of dct-channel has some new options, including
> --blind, which causes it to just reset the box and send keypresses
> blindly, exactly like the Python scripts.  Of course, you lose the
> benefits of actual communication, like reading the current channel and
> verifying that the change succeeded, but it should work as a last
> resort as long as the Python scripts did.
> 
> Isaac, this should be good for replacing contrib/dct-channel-1.3.tar.gz
> 
>    http://jim.sh/tv/dct-channel-1.4.tar.gz

Hey Jim - great, thanks! Just got a chance to try this and it works much
better - much faster!

Yeah!

Josh
> 
> -jim
> 
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