[mythtv-users] USB->Serial for controlling DirecTV boxes

greg greg12866 at nycap.rr.com
Wed Sep 24 00:45:41 UTC 2008


Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> Does anyone know where to get older supported USB->Serial converters?  
> I've bought several over the past couple of weeks. Apparently, the  
> newer pl2303X ones don't work on the DirecTV boxes where the older  
> pl2303 ones do. There's no way to tell which chip you have until you  
> plug it in and I've already wasted a bunch of money on different ones  
> that the wiki say will work including identical ones that I currently  
> have working.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
>
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Brad,
    I have one of these gizmo's ..I don't recall who was  the 
manufacture of it.
I ran the test on it and this was my results...Is this the correct one?

 bMaxPacketSize0         8
Greg



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