[mythtv] controlling a STB with myth

[Simon Kenyon]

Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Simon Kenyon <simon at koala.ie 
> <mailto:simon at koala.ie>> wrote:
> 
>     i control a sky digibox with my mythbackend
>     before the watershed they often protect a program with a PIN
>     but there is no obvious way of determining this other than pattern
>     matching the screen asking for the PIN
> 
>     has anybody any ideas about how this could be tackled?
>     i two hour recording of a static screen asking for a PIN is a waste
>     of disk space and very frustrating
> 
> 
> What would be the side effect of always sending the PIN after a channel 
> change?  Might want to ask this on mythtv-users...

always sending the PIn would cause the channel to change to 1111 (or 
whatever). this would not be the best.

i will do as you suggest and ask on users.
what i suspect would really be needed is something akin to the 
commercial detection code which would detect the PIN screen and then 
(and only then) provide the PIN.

regards
--
simon