[mythtv-users] Comcast STB upgrade breaks firewire channel changing

[jedi]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 01:30:16PM -0500, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Christopher Meredith
> <chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Do those boxes have USB ports?  If yes, what happens when you plug in
> >> a keyboard?  Can you change channels or do anything useful?
> >>
> >> I just got a microcontroller development kit and creating a USB
> >> keyboard is practically project 1.0.
> >>
> > Interesting. I can check when I get home. Though wouldn't any solution that
> > basically "emulates" a keyboard require special hardware?
> 
> Yes.  How badly do you want channel changing to work?  :)
> 
> DirecTV boxes apparently have a working USB port that works with
> keyboards, and I've always been interested in microcontrollers.

   ...I would be surprised if that were really the case. DTV boxes have
a hard enough time dealing with a small subset of Serial dongles and then
apparently only if the dongle and PC are powered up before the DTV STB is.