<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> to how you will be able to control it. In some cases, you can get a<br>> serial connection to the set top box and control the channel changes
<br>> that way, and in other cases you need an IR blaster. Once you find out<br>> the type (make & model) of set top box, you'll really know what you are<br>> dealing with.<br><br>Rogers pretty much exclusively uses SA boxes, I think mine is an SA3100,
<br>or something like that. Pretty low end stuff. This solution would work,<br>but is less reliable.<br></blockquote></div><br>Not sure why you say that. I have a pair of old motorola boxes (DCT2524s) set up with blasters from
<a href="http://irblaster.info">irblaster.info</a>, and I've never had a missed tune. Even with slower boxes, you should be able to tweak the tune script to get similar results. And serial port control should be perfectly reliable.
<br><br>Brett.<br>