> I have analog cable now and I'd like to switch to DirecTV sat. I have > 2 pvr250 that are split on the cable. How hard/possible is it to > control those boxes with serial ports, guessing 2 ports, one for each > external receiver. Do people do this?
I just went the other way (DirecTV to Cable) but for about a year I ran 2 DirecTV recievers with MythTV. I used serial cables that I bought from Snapstream. They worked great, I never had channel change problems. > I don't really want to use a > IRblaster. Does the Sat onscreen menus come up when myth changes the > channels? The menu did come up on my RCA recievers, but I set it to a short timeout and used a theme that overlapped over it, so you couldn't see it on live tv channel changes. > Is it transparent (analog cable like) after you got the > serial ports working? Yes, it will work just fine. Channel changes did seem to take a little bit longer than with cable. Picture quality was much better than what I get today with analog cable. > What model DirecTV tuners work the best here Make sure you get boxes with "low speed data ports". I used 2 RCA recievers that I bought at circuit city.
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