[mythtv-users] Comcast STB upgrade breaks firewire channel changing

Christopher Meredith chmeredith at gmail.com
Tue Mar 15 18:14:39 UTC 2011


On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Robert Kulagowski <rkulagow at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Christopher Meredith
> <chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Nasa <nasa01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> ----- "Eric Sharkey" <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Nasa <nasa01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >> > > So does anyone have any other suggestions for Chris and I?  I am
> >> > stuck
> >> > > the same why he is...
> >> >
> >> > Did you try contacting Comcast customer support?  (Long shot, I
> >> > know...)
> >> >
> >> Yeah went something like...
> >>
> >> > Hello, my name is ABC how may I help you?
> >>
> >> Yeah, I have been using firewire...
> >>
> >> > What is firewire?
> >>
> >> Next
> >>
> >> > Hello, my name is XYZ how may I help you?
> >>
> >> Yeah, I have been using  firewire...
> >>
> >> > The boxes have firewire ports?
> >>
> >> Next
> >>
> >> > Hello, my name is YYY how may I help you?
> >>
> >> Yeah, I have been using firewire...
> >>
> >> > Those ports never actually worked...
> >>
> >> Next
> >>
> >> > Hello, my name is XXX how may I help you?
> >>
> >> Yeah, I have been using !@#$ firewire...
> >>
> >> > We never supported those ports...
> >>
> >> NEXT
> >>
> >> > Hello, my name is EFZ how may I help you?
> >>
> >>
> >> Yeah, I have been using !@#$ firewire...
> >>
> >> > we don't support those ports...
> >>
> >> Click
> >
> > I just had one of those conversations.
> > "How can I help you?"
> > "I'd like to talk to someone who knows technical details about the
> firewire
> > ports on the Cisco STBs."
> > "Did you say firewire? That's funny..."
> >
> > Here's the log of my chat session:
> >
> > http://pastebin.com/vcEyAn6d
> >
> > Looks like IR blasting is in my future.
>
> Do those boxes have USB ports?  If yes, what happens when you plug in
> a keyboard?  Can you change channels or do anything useful?
>
> I just got a microcontroller development kit and creating a USB
> keyboard is practically project 1.0.
>
> Interesting. I can check when I get home. Though wouldn't any solution that
basically "emulates" a keyboard require special hardware?
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