On 7/15/2005 3:34 PM Eric Jensen wrote:
I ordered DirectTV because I heard you could connect to it via serial to
change channels instead of using an IR blaster. When I got my reciever
though it has a odd looking phone jack that says "Low speed data". It
looks taller then the standard phone jack, so I'm assuming that it is
for a COM type interface. Any ideas how I connect my MythTV box to
this? I haven't found a guide that talks about this part of the setup,
soon as MythTV is up and running the guides end.
Eric
After you make the cable as described on the dtvcontrol web site, then
you need to find the proper perl script that changes channels for your
DirecTV box. For example, my box is an RCA 4th gen receiver so I tried
the RCA.pl script. No go. The sony.pl script works on this box. Just
run the script and pass the channel number on the command line such as
'./sony.pl 100'.
Use Google to find the scripts. As I recall, seems there were 3
different ones floating around.
Good Luck,
Drew
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