[mythtv-users] Serial port control?

[Pete Cap]

Thanks Brad--that should be enough to get me started :)

Regards,
Pete

Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote: 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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