[mythtv-users] Serial port control?

[Brad DerManouelian]

I haven't seen any guides because it usually just works. Get yourself  
a serial cable. Plug one end into your cable box, the other into your  
myth box. Uncompress/Compile the channel change script in myth's  
contrib directory. Put the compiled channel binary in your /usr/local/ 
bin directory and try it out. The channel change scripts comes with a  
README that should explain anything you need to compile. Once you get  
channel changes from the command line, you add it as a channel change  
script in setup.

If it doesn't work for you, you can ask specific questions depending  
on which part you get stuck on. I was surprised at how easy it was  
and it did simply just work.

-Brad


On Jun 25, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Pete Cap wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> Does anyone know of any guides to setting up serial port control of  
> a cable set-top box?  I have found a few forums posts where people  
> mention "getting it to work," but no information on the process.
>
> The set-top box I got from Cox Cable in Virginia Beach has a 9-pin  
> port on the back of it--I wonder if this can be used to control the  
> box (so I wouldn't need an IR blaster).
>
> Thanks,
> Pete
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