<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I haven't seen any guides because it usually just works. Get yourself a serial cable. Plug one end into your cable box, the other into your myth box. Uncompress/Compile the channel change script in myth's contrib directory. Put the compiled channel binary in your /usr/local/bin directory and try it out. The channel change scripts comes with a README that should explain anything you need to compile. Once you get channel changes from the command line, you add it as a channel change script in setup.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If it doesn't work for you, you can ask specific questions depending on which part you get stuck on. I was surprised at how easy it was and it did simply just work.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-Brad</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 25, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Pete Cap wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Hello list,<BR><BR>Does anyone know of any guides to setting up serial port control of a cable set-top box? I have found a few forums posts where people mention "getting it to work," but no information on the process.<BR><BR>The set-top box I got from Cox Cable in Virginia Beach has a 9-pin port on the back of it--I wonder if this can be used to control the box (so I wouldn't need an IR blaster).<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Pete<BR><DIV> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><HR size="1">Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football ’06 - Go with the leader. <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=33539/*http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com?ovchn=YAH&ovcpn=Integration&ovcrn=Mail+footer&ovrfd=YAH&ovtac=AD">Start your league today!</A><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">mythtv-users mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>