On September 28, 2005 11:01 am, SpEnT wrote: > Mark, > > I was just wondering how you do your channel changing with multiple > DCT-2000 boxes. Right now I'm running just one but I have another PVR-250 I > just put in my backend and would like to excersize the whole "watch one > digital channel and record another" option. As it sits I'm using a serial > connection to change channels on the one box but this looks like it's going > to get confusing adding more STB's to the backend. > > Just curious how you worked around this. > > -- > Lonny
I have two IR transmitters, each on a serial port of my backend. My cable provider won't enable the serial ports on my stb's. I had to hack together a custom lirc module to let lirc deal with two separate serial port IR transmitters. I copied the entire lirc_serial module in to lirc_serial1, and edited the new module appropriately. I have two separate change channel scripts, which I call tunetv1 and tunetv2. The only difference between the scripts is the device in the irsend commands. Since my STB's and transmitters are very close to each other, I have to be very careful not to get the signals mixed up. I built little tents out of egg cartons to hide the STB's IR receivers from each other. Hope this helps, Mark > > On 5/26/05, Mark J. Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 26, 2005 02:57 pm, Egeekial wrote: > > > This is probably a stupid question, but is there any way to watch and > > > record two different channels with a single DCT2XXX receiver? > > > > The short answer is no. > > > > The long answer is that on many cable systems, most of the channels that > > people actually want to watch are on analog anyway. So what you can do is > > split the cable, send one straight to a tv tuner card for analog channels > > and > > the other to your set top box for analog + digital. > > > > My current backend uses three PVR250 cards. Two of them are fed by > > DCT-2000 > > STB's and the third uses straight analog cable. > > > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
