Sorry i should have provided more information. in my case i have two
Bell Expressvu receivers and i have two home built serial port
transmitters. they worked with out any problems on the old server
however i am now short one serial port.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Nov 5, 2006, at 11:44 AM, brian boyle wrote:<br><br>> Hey Folks.<br>><br>> I have a new question. i am wondering how everyone is handling<br>> the fact that new motherboards come with only one serial port. i
<br>> recently built a new backend machine which i love except that it<br>> only has a single serial port. i purchased a Startech pci serial<br>> port with the expectation that i would be able to use it to control
<br>> my second capture card (that work great in my old system) but with<br>> no luck.<br>><br>> so basically am i the only one with this problem. i sent several<br>> messages to the lirc mailing list and got no love so i have hopes
<br>> that someone has had better luck with this same problem.<br>><br>> Thanks once again.<br><br>By "controlling your second capture card" I assume you mean<br>controlling an STB that feeds it? Since you mention lirc I assume you
<br>are not controlling a DirecTV box by serial cable but rather an IR-<br>controlled box of some sort via an IR blaster?<br><br>I thought that there was some way to use an IR blaster to send two or<br>more sets of codes and thus control more than one device. I know you
<br>can use a "MyBlaster" device to control multiple devices through a<br>single serial port.<br><br>You can also control the MyBlaster through a USB port using an<br>adapter. I would assume you could do this with a standard "dumb"
<br>blaster as well.<br><br>A lot of assumptions I know. I'm using a "MyBlaster" because I<br>decided the $40US that the device cost was a better way to go than<br>beating my head against a wall for a couple of days to get the LIRC
<br>solution working. It would definitely solve your problem but that's<br>not to say that other solutions would not do so as well.<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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