[mythtv-users] Sky Set Top Box control only at set times ?
Damian O'Sullivan
shabba at skynet.ie
Thu Dec 18 11:58:10 UTC 2008
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Max Hodgson wrote:
> The skybox outputs data via the serial port of the channel being
> watched I believe.
>
> http://www.heenan.me.uk/control-sky-from-pc/gnome-protocol.html
>
> You could write a perl script to watch the serial port.
This does not prove the channel is being watched though. Just that it is
the currently tuned one. There is no way really unless you could tell if
the tv was on and currently on the sky box AV connection and that there
was someone in the room also!
Damian O'Sullivan Tel: 087 2241456 damian at linux.ie
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