[mythtv-users] Satellite TV and MythTV, getting started

David Asher asherml at gmail.com
Fri Jan 23 19:10:16 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2009, at 6:43 AM, jedi wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:00:38AM -0500, David Asher wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I will look around for the USB to
>>>> serial adapter does not sound very hopeful so will also look into the IR
>>>> Blaster as a way to control it.
>>>
>>> I found these when I was looking.  Note that I have not TRIED them
>>> yet, but the website seems to know about the issue and claims these
>>> work with linux:
>>
>> ...I thought the problem was the DirecTV box, not Linux.
>
> Yes, that's true. I contacted SerialIO directly and talked with a sales guy
> who didn't know much but he asked the engineering team and called me back to
> say the pl2302 chips are "long gone" and he doesn't know of any way to get
> an adaptor with one any more. They all moved over to 2303X.

Hmm...  Bummer.  So I should take from that the SerialIO ones probably
WON'T work w/the current DirecTV receivers?

Thanks,

David.


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