[mythtv-users] Backend 3000 miles away (kinda)

[Boyd II, Willy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Goldenhar [mailto:joshuag29 at comcast.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 1:49 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Backend 3000 miles away (kinda)
> 
> Hey all -
> 
> I'm trying to gain an understanding for this...
> 
> I have a Motorola DCT2244 digital cable box with a serial 
> port on the back.
> 
> I had purchased an the ACTiSYS IR200 thinking I had to have 
> it, but it sounds like I might be able to just run the serial 
> cable from the myth box to the cable box to control channels 
> - but this is where I get a little confused...
> 
> What do you do with lirc? Do you have to recompile and tell 
> it to use com1 instead of the (in my case) hauppauge ir device?

No, lirc is still used to receive signals for the Hauppauge remote.
> 
> If so, then how does the system respond to the hauppauge 
> remote (is the answer "it doesn't")? Does the cable box send 
> any IR codes it receives TO the mythTV box - in which case I 
> only use the remote that came with the cable box?

You will still use the Hauppauge remote.  You'll use a channel change script
(search the archives) to change channels on the cable box.  Basically this
is a perl script that sends out commands over the serial cable to change
channels on your cable box.  When myth receive a channel change request (via
the Hauppauge remote), it internally call this script to perform the change.
See the mythtv setup for where to specify the full path to this
command/script that you installed.

- Willy
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Josh
> 
>