I've been wondering how exactly something like that would be done for some time. Not for the same reason; I was wondering if there might be some way to control a device, such as a AV switchbox, that does not have a remote, with relays, but I never really looked in to it. I'm curious to know how you did it.
-Nate On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:27:14 +0000, travis eddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for my dish box i custom buildn't a deal and some software.... the deal was > a parrelle port device that accepted numbers 0-9 and then would fire a relay > (depnending on the number of course) and that relay had two 30 gaurge wires > running to the remote.. it works well very well, and yes it is a bit > primitive, but it works! if you want to try that you can email me, its > simple to build and the software is really basic. > -travis > > >From: Steve Bower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Discussion about mythtv > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Dish channel changing Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Suggestions > >(Tivo) > >Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 11:29:59 -0500 > > > > > > >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Hulse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >Kevin> Also, the DishTV set top boxes have this nasty habit of > >Kevin> putting you in a deadend condition if you select the wrong > >Kevin> channel. This is a problem with Tivo since it neither detects nor > >Kevin> routes around this problem. The Dish box is basically expecting > >Kevin> human interaction contrary to the automated responses from the > >Kevin> Tivo. > > > >Kevin> Tivo wants to spit out full channel numbers and the Dish box > >Kevin> wants to only get chan-up or chan-down. The end result is a bunch > >Kevin> of trashed recordings. > > > >Kevin> I was wondering if Myth has any "crash detection" or any > >Kevin> other methods to route around this sort of problem? > > > >Kevin> For the Dish boxes, I suppose adding a chan-up command as a > >Kevin> prefix to any explicit channel input would suffice as a > >Kevin> workaround. > > > >Hi Kevin, > > > >I did this for a while with my mythtv/dish setup, but it ran into the > >same issue when the chan-up put me onto a PPV channel... > > > >I've been focusing my efforts more on hdtv lately, so I haven't been > >fiddling with it much recently. > > > >Can you access the guide from those screens? If so, that might be a > >"works everywhere" thing. > > > >Or, we could always grab a still picture of the channel-change banner > >and OCR it to see if it matches the channel we want to be on. Or > >compare the picture with the "bad channel" screen? > > > > Steve. > >_______________________________________________ > >mythtv-users mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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