On 3/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew</b> <<a href="mailto:lists@heathsworld.com">lists@heathsworld.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I am looking at installing 2 DirectTV D11 receivers and running them off the Double Headed MythTV LIRC RS232 IR Blaster<br>(Two Standard IR Heads connected to one DB9) from <a href="http://irblaster.info">irblaster.info</a>
. Now that I investigate, I see that the D11 has a USB<br>port. Would I be wiser to connect 2 USB cables to my Mythtv box? or just go with the dual IR blaster? Any pros or cons?</blockquote><div><br>I suggest using 2 cables instead of IR blasters. Reason being, I know that serial cables to the D11 box works (it's what I use). I also purchased an IR blaster and gave up when I couldn't find a configuration that worked.
<br><br>That being said, you can't just use a USB cable. The USB port on the sat box is expecting to be connected to a USB->Serial converter, so you can either use that and plug it into a normal serial port on your PC or use two USB->Serial converters for each box (4 total in your case).
<br><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Controlling_DirectTV_D11_via_USB">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Controlling_DirectTV_D11_via_USB</a><br></div></div>