[mythtv-users] Digital Cable

[jonasb at alum.rpi.edu]

I haven't had a chance to check if mine has a serial port, but I'm
pretty sure it has a USB.... any chance that this C program you mention
would work over USB?

How did you confirm that yours was active?

<-----Original Message-----> 
From: Ray Olszewski
Sent: 2/26/2004 2:53:48 PM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Digital Cable

At 01:35 PM 2/26/2004 -0500, John F. DeLuca wrote: 
[...] 

>True.....IR Blaster is neither best nor only option if you have an
active 
>serial port on 
>your cable box. Sadly, my cable box does not fall into that category so
>*my* best and 
>only option to view digital cable channels with my Myth or Tivo is via
IR 
>Blaster 

Just curious ... does your cable box entirely lack a serial port or is
it 
present but not "active"? I ask because it took me quite a bit of work
to 
confirm that mine was active ... only the *very* latest version of Jim 
Paris' C program, for example, works with it. I was about ready to give
up 
until I discovered a neighbor had his port working with his TiVo. (A lot
of 
my blundering around is reflected on a recent thread I started on this
list 
.... Ian was quite patient and helpful there.) 

Given the general unhelpfulness of cable providers with respect to 
information about this interface, I've wondered how many people give up
on 
it too soon. 
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