[mythtv-users] RCA DirecTV serial cable

nate s nate.strickland at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 20:33:24 UTC 2004


I found that the rca.pl script didn't work for me, so I found a
snippet of C that someone had posted in the archive to change channels
with and it works fine for me.  If you need it, I can re-post it.

-Nate


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:21:47 -0500, David George <david at thegeorges.us> wrote:
> On 11/18/2004 10:40 AM, Kris.S.Boultbee wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >I have made me a serial cable that works great with the Windows control program. So I know the cable works. The problem is that when I download the rca.pl it does nothing and when I use the sony.pl script it just resets the receiver. I don't know the model number of the receiver off the top of my head but I do know that it supports the new command set and not he old. I also am fairly well versed in perl.
> >
> >
> The following script supports the new command set.  At least on my RCA
> DRD435RH.
> 
> http://bach.as.arizona.edu/~johng/rca_control.txt
> 
> rename to rca_control.pl and set the executable bits (chmod 755
> rca_control.pl)
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >Also, how do you tell myth to use the script? I think you go to the section for the external channel change command and put /usr/local/bin/sony.pl in there but I'm not certain. This is also something that seems quite vague.
> >
> >
> That's it.  Or in my case /usr/local/bin/rca_control.pl
> 
> HTH,
> David
> 
> 
> 
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