I know that if my cable box had a serial port I would be able to just connect my myth box to the cable box and myth would do the rest in terms of changing the channels. But since mine does not have a serial port I was looking into the options of building an ir transmitter or simply buying one from irblaster.info which looks like a decent buy and saves me the hassle of pulling out my soldering iron.
But my cable box does have a usb port (It is a scientic atlantic, i forget the model, that I got through my cable provider (cox)). Will this channel changing function the same way if is use a usb male to usb male bridge like this (http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage.asp?image=12-156-002-03.jpg/12-156-002-04.jpg/12-156-002-01.jpg/12-156-002-02.jpg)? Do I need any channel changing scripts or does myth automatically detect it? Or does it even work at all? I planned on putting an order into newegg anyways so I figured it this usb cable would work and I didn't have to do anything on the myth end to have it change the channels on my cable box that would be great! I figure that I would have more use for the usb cable in the future than the ir transmitter anyways. If the usb option does work I will just end up buying the transmitter from irblaster.info but I was hoping that I could just get everything I needed in one order to newegg. thanks, Evan
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