[mythtv-users] Last Ditch Attempt - HD DirecTV and MythTV
Kristo Kriechbaum
klk+myth at robotics.caltech.edu
Tue Jun 22 19:45:14 EDT 2004
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:34:04PM -0700, mythtv at hundekeandroyal.com wrote:
> Dan Morphis wrote:
> >mythtv at hundekeandroyal.com wrote:
> >
> >>Does anyone, *ANYONE*, have a High Definition Set Top Box with
> >>DirecTV working with Myth? Anyone at all? I've been working on
> >>getting MythTV to change channels on my stb, but have failed
> >>miserable at every attempt.
> >>
> >Have you tried an IR blaster? You'd need an IR receiver to record the
> >signal for each button, but its pretty easy.
> >
> >-dan
>
> Dan,
>
> I've tried to use the Actisys IR-200L along with this guide
> (http://members.cox.net/rwraithr/IRBlaster_Howto.txt). I figured I
> could make my own config file (remoted.conf) because my model of stb
> (Samsung SIR-TS360) isn't on the LIRC site. After getting to step 6 in
> the howto, I fired up irrecord and the only buttons that irrecord could
> catch were 0, 2, 6, the "dash" button and the "audio" button. That's
> it! I was stuck.
>
> FWIW, I also saw (but can't find now) that the method used in the how-to
> above is outdated. Apparently, if I understood it correctly, you no
> longer have to compile two different LIRCs.
>
> Any thoughts are much appreciated!
>
> Geoff
Your settop box doesn't have a serial port on it by chance, does it?
It's possible that it looks like a phone jack. If it does you may
have a better chance trying to control it over the serial port.
-kristo
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