[mythtv-users] controlling two digital cable boxes

Robert Kulagowski bob at smalltime.com
Mon Mar 1 19:42:37 EST 2004


> 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?

There do exist USB->Serial converters.  It may or may not work under 
linux.  Failing that, you could purchase a PCI serial card.



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