[mythtv-users] Updated dct-channel for controlling DCT-2000 via serial port

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Fri Oct 17 03:12:17 EDT 2003


On Friday 17 October 2003 01:57 am, Jim Paris wrote:
> I wrote a better version of my serial port channel changing program
> for the DCT-2000 series cable boxes.  It now builds with
> autoconf/automake and supports a bunch of useful command-line options.
>
> I'd appreciate feedback from anyone who tries it; it's still only
> tested on my cable box, but it should run much better and be more
> reliable than the Python scripts.  (If you run into trouble, run it
> with -vv and send me the output)
>
> The code has been rewritten so it's all GPL now.
>
> Isaac, perhaps this can get included in the contrib/ directory?

Not with it using automake/conf.  I don't really want to bloat the release 
tarball up by another 100k just for the configure script for this -- you 
could replace all of that with, what, a 20 line makefile and not lose any 
important functionality? =)

Isaac


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