On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:49:56AM -0500, Robert Denier wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 10:58 -0400, Jim Reith wrote: > > At 10:11 AM 9/13/2005, you wrote: > [snip] > > >On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:14:36AM -0400, Brian Long wrote: > > > > > >Along these lines, does anyone know how to control a cable box via > > >direct USB connections? I know my cable box has a USB port, and if I > > >hook up a USB keyboard to it, I can change the channels by hitting the > > >number keys. > > The only thing that comes to mind that might be reasonably easy would be > to > > 1) First make sure you can do what you need to do with that ordinary usb > keyboard. Write down those keys and how they work. > > 2) Find a USB infrared keyboard or a PS2 infrared keyboard with a USB > adapter. Connect this. > > 3) Train LIRC to output keycodes to the LIRC emitter as appropriate and > fill in the details. > > Now that is less than a direct method, and to be honest, by skimming the > previous thread is only really useful if you can, at the very least, set > those different keyboard IR receivers to respond to different sets of IR > codes. Of course, if you can just set the cable box to different sets > of IR codes then you really should just do that, since this would be > adding considerable complexity for little gain. > > Perhaps someone can think of a simpler way. >
Well, I already have an IR receiver and an IR blaster and an IR keyboard. I'm trying to cut out the IR altogether. I've kept this thread in my "inbox" for a while, which originally started my investigation, unfortunately it seemed to just die out. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/58716
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