Dish channel changing Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Suggestions (Tivo)

travis eddy boscotwo at hotmail.com
Sat Dec 4 15:27:14 UTC 2004


for my dish box i custom buildn't a deal and some software.... the deal was 
a parrelle port device that accepted numbers 0-9 and then would fire a relay 
(depnending on the number of course) and that relay had two 30 gaurge wires 
running to the remote.. it works well very well, and yes it is a bit 
primitive, but it works! if you want to try that you can email me, its 
simple to build and the software is really basic.
-travis

>From: Steve Bower <sbower at cisco.com>
>Reply-To: sbower at cisco.com, Discussion about mythtv 
><mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>Subject: Dish channel changing Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Suggestions 
>(Tivo)
>Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 11:29:59 -0500
>
> >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Hulse <jedi at mishnet.org> writes:
>
>Kevin>      Also, the DishTV set top boxes have this nasty habit of
>Kevin> putting you in a deadend condition if you select the wrong
>Kevin> channel. This is a problem with Tivo since it neither detects nor
>Kevin> routes around this problem. The Dish box is basically expecting
>Kevin> human interaction contrary to the automated responses from the
>Kevin> Tivo.
>
>Kevin>      Tivo wants to spit out full channel numbers and the Dish box
>Kevin> wants to only get chan-up or chan-down. The end result is a bunch
>Kevin> of trashed recordings.
>
>Kevin>      I was wondering if Myth has any "crash detection" or any
>Kevin> other methods to route around this sort of problem?
>
>Kevin>      For the Dish boxes, I suppose adding a chan-up command as a
>Kevin> prefix to any explicit channel input would suffice as a
>Kevin> workaround.
>
>Hi Kevin,
>
>I did this for a while with my mythtv/dish setup, but it ran into the
>same issue when the chan-up put me onto a PPV channel...
>
>I've been focusing my efforts more on hdtv lately, so I haven't been
>fiddling with it much recently.
>
>Can you access the guide from those screens?  If so, that might be a
>"works everywhere" thing.
>
>Or, we could always grab a still picture of the channel-change banner
>and OCR it to see if it matches the channel we want to be on.  Or
>compare the picture with the "bad channel" screen?
>
>   Steve.
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