[mythtv-users] DCT2224 Digital Cable Box

[Gary Balliet]

ian at duckland.org wrote:

>On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Stephen Mowry wrote:
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>>I know this leaves out a lot of details, but since I don't have it working,
>>I'm not yet ready to write a detailed HOWTO on all the steps for enabling
>>and troubleshooting DCT2XXX serial cable channel changing.  There are an
>>incredible number of people using these boxes and I think it would be great
>>if someone (who's gone through all of this already) could compile their
>>knowledge into a *GOOD and USEFUL* HOWTO with more detail than the few
>>paragraphs in the Myth docs.
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>Oh bloddy hell.  I wrote a HOWTO on this *months* ago.  If you've got 
>mythtv on a machine at home, you have a copy of it on your machine.  Look 
>in the contrib directory and you'll see TWO sets of code for changing 
>channels on a DCT2000 series box.  One is a set of Python scripts where
>*no-one* has complained about the README.  The newer piece of code is Jim 
>Paris' C code that works faster, has better error checking, and also has a 
>README file that *no-one* has complained about.
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>>MythTV is pretty much USELESS without channel changing, and it's completely
>>stupid that there isn't any more coherent documentation supporting the
>>DCT2XXX series... or try finding docs on getting the default DISH Dish Pro
>>301 (that another few million people have.)
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>You should do some more homework before calling situations stupid.  
>Attitudes like the above aren't very productive on this list.
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>	-Ian
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As many no doubt do - I concur.

./gary