[mythtv-users] Frontend USB to TV RS232 serial?

[Paul Bender]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Monday 03 August 2009 17:40:32 Paul Bender wrote:
>> mythtv at derdev.com wrote:
>>> On a frontend without any available serial ports (RS232) and plenty of
>>> available USB ports, is there an easy/obvious solution to connect the
>>> frontend to an HDTV's RS232 serial port for power on/off control?
>>>
>>> I see lots of USB to Serial converters but they don't seem to terminate
>>> in the male serial connection needed to link up to the TV...  Barking up
>>> the wrong tree here?
>> I connect to my Sharp Aquos HDTV using a USB-to-RS232 cable along with
>> an RS232 null modem (aka gender-bender) connector/cable.
> 
> There seems to be some confusion about the difference between a null modem and 
> a "gender bender".

Thank you for the clarification. As I have never used a null-modem that 
was not a gender-bender and I have never used a gender-bender that was 
not a null-modem, I had always assumed that they were the same thing.