[mythtv-users] H24-100 and USB to Serial control

[Craig Van Tassle]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:30:50 -0600
William Powers <wepprop at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 17, 2011, at 10:33 PM, Craig Van Tassle <craig at codestorm.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > When I moved DirecTV upgraded me to a new HD H24-100. I had my old
> > D11's working fine with USB-Serial adapters.
> > 
> > Now I cant get anything with my new H24's. I've been using the
> > directv.pl version 1.10. I have tried port speeds of 9600 and
> > 115200. Neither of them seem to work. 
> > 
> > Does anyone have any ideas how I can get these working?
> 
> I am doing this from memory, but to get it to work I had to set the
> box_type to H20 and I had to increase the delay associated with the
> setup_channel command from 0.2 seconds to 0.5 seconds.  I think the
> delay was called clear_osd_delay?  I don't recall what baudrate I had
> to use. Also check to make sure your ttyUSB ports aren't moving
> around on you on reboots, which can happen unless you have set up a
> udev alias.
> 
> The direct_http.pl script available on the wiki also works very well
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I dont have my H24's setup on my network. I've though about doing that,
but didnt want to hear it from my wife about spending the money on a
serial card, Null-Modem Cables and USB-Serial adapters!

On my server it's serial ports not ttyUSB* so that is not a worry for
me.

I was able to get it working. as John said I needed to have the
USB-Serial adapters plugged in when I started up the boxes. I restarted
them and it worked fine! 

Thanks!