[mythtv-users] New to the whole DirecTV thang.

Ray Olszewski ray at comarre.com
Thu May 8 16:33:52 EDT 2003


At 03:22 PM 5/8/2003 -0700, Jeremy Oddo wrote:
[...]
> > My setup here has been to hook up the receiver to my serial port and
> > control everything on the receiver through myth..
> >
>Sadly, I believe that the dish receiver came sans serial connector.  I
>have a "low speed data port" which looks like an RJ-11.  Don't think I can
>use that for anything :(

Check this port out before you give up on it. I've encountered 
implementations of perfectly standard serial ports that used RJ-11 (4-wire) 
or RJ-14 (6-wire) connectors in the past.





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