[mythtv-users] Controlling multiple cable boxes

[Erik Karlin]

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.


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