[mythtv-users] more than one capture card

[brian boyle]

Sorry i should have provided more information. in my case i have two Bell
Expressvu receivers and i have two home built serial port transmitters. they
worked with out any problems on the old server however i am now short one
serial port.

On 11/5/06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 5, 2006, at 11:44 AM, brian boyle wrote:
>
> > Hey Folks.
> >
> >     I have a new question. i am wondering how everyone is handling
> > the fact that new motherboards come with only one serial port. i
> > recently built a new backend machine which i love except that it
> > only has a single serial port. i purchased a Startech pci serial
> > port with the expectation that i would be able to use it to control
> > my second capture card (that work great in my old system) but with
> > no luck.
> >
> >    so basically am i the only one with this problem. i sent several
> > messages to the lirc mailing list and got no love so i have hopes
> > that someone has had better luck with this same problem.
> >
> > Thanks once again.
>
> By "controlling your second capture card" I assume you mean
> controlling an STB that feeds it? Since you mention lirc I assume you
> are not controlling a DirecTV box by serial cable but rather an IR-
> controlled  box of some sort via an IR blaster?
>
> I thought that there was some way to use an IR blaster to send two or
> more sets of codes and thus control more than one device. I know you
> can use a "MyBlaster" device to control multiple devices through a
> single serial port.
>
> You can also control the MyBlaster through a USB port using an
> adapter. I would assume you could do this with a standard "dumb"
> blaster as well.
>
> A lot of assumptions I know. I'm using a "MyBlaster" because I
> decided the $40US that the device cost was a better way to go than
> beating my head against a wall for a couple of days to get the LIRC
> solution working. It would definitely solve your problem but that's
> not to say that other solutions would not do so as well.
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