[mythtv-users] controlling two digital cable boxes

[Johannes Niess]

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Am Montag, 1. März 2004 20:42 schrieb Peter Lee:
> Hi.
>
> I'm sure that this has been asked and answered before, but for some reason
> I have not found anything in the archives or on google.
>
> I've been running MythTV very nicely for a while now (version 0.14, on an
> FC1 with a pvr-250, fed by a comcast digital cable box).  I've just
> received a second capture card, a pvr-350, and I am now planning to add
> this to my mythbox and use a second digital cable box to feed it.  My
> question is really very simple: How do I arrange for channel changing of
> the second cable box?  I have only one serial port on the myth box, which
> is being used to control the first cable box.  How do I set up the second
> one?
>
> I'm sure that I'm not the only one with this kind of arrangement.  Is there
> a cheap/easy way to, say, run a cable from a usb port on the myth box into
> the serial port on the second cable box, and then use a second instance of
> the "channel" script for this?

The expensive and easy way is using an usb to serial converter, which drives 
another IR blaser or the cable box directly.

>
> Thanks for the help.  I am becoming more and more impressed with this as
> time goes by, and slowly but surely the WAF has been on the rise...
>
> Peter
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