[mythtv-users] A/V Receivers & MythTv

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 18:16:58 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Jason Sullivan <jason0x21 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >  In general any good home theater component will have an RS-232 port
>  >  for system integration. Other than that  there really is no other
>  >  command input method other than the remote. You could use an IR
>  >  Blaster to control the Denon though. I don't think there are any
>  >  systems for allowing a linux PC to talk to RS-232 devices.
>
>  The hard part is actually getting the manufacturers to part with their
>  command set.  Getting linux to talk RS-232 is actually the really easy
>  part.  Even if you don't have a port on the motherboard, most USB ->
>  RS-232 converters work just fine.
>

Not usually difficult, as long as it's one of the bigger names.  They
have to realease this info if they want custom integrators to use
their products.


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