I can tell you my experience with FIOS Motorola cable boxes lately and recording from fire wire is not good. The commands all worked with the 6200ch script but i would have to unplug the box every 24 hours or so just to get it fire wire working. <br>
<br>I recently changed to a dcr-2650 and a cable card and couldn't be happier. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Preston Crow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pc-mythtv08a@crowcastle.net">pc-mythtv08a@crowcastle.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I just upgraded to FiOS, and they provide a Cisco (Scientific Atlanta)<br>
CHS-335 cable box. The Firewire port is active, and Myth gets a great<br>
signal from it. (I have it set at 400Mbps in point-to-point mode.)<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, it doesn't handle most of the commands. I found a PDF<br>
file that describes a sequence of tests to verify compliance with the<br>
FCC requirements, and it does respond correctly to the commands.<br>
There's just one little problem. While the box tells the computer over<br>
Firewire that it accepted the command, it doesn't actually do anything.<br>
<br>
The only commands that actually work are:<br>
Power status<br>
Channel up<br>
Channel down<br>
<br>
The FCC requirements specifically state that it must support power on,<br>
power off, and tune (as well as mute and volume restore), so I suppose I<br>
should complain to Verizon and get them to escalate it to Cisco, then<br>
update the firmware once it's fixed. Has anyone else pursued this?<br>
<br>
For the test specifications, see<br>
<a href="http://www.1394ta.org/developers/specifications.html" target="_blank">http://www.1394ta.org/developers/specifications.html</a><br>
and download 2008003 "USA Set Top Box Test Specification."<br>
<br>
I intend to try to get Verizon to get the firmware fixed, even though<br>
I'll probably find another solution, as not recording until it's fixed<br>
isn't really an option.<br>
<br>
I suppose my remaining alternatives are:<br>
*) Get Verizon to give me a Motorolla box instead (but my Comcast<br>
Motorolla box didn't work well over Firewire, so who knows?)<br>
*) Get a HDHomerun Prime or other Cable Card tuner<br>
*) Get an IR Blaster.<br>
<br>
My initial search didn't find many options for IR blasters--I would have<br>
thought I could find a USB IR Blaster for $5-10, but they seem to be<br>
quite a bit more expensive. I would appreceiate any thoughts on buying one.<br>
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