[mythtv-users] Firewire channel changing for Cisco RNG150?

Patrick Archibald patrick.archibald at gmail.com
Fri Jul 9 02:09:42 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Christian Szpilfogel
<chrisznews4 at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/07/2010 7:18 PM, Patrick Archibald wrote:
>>>
>>> Interesting "-f 6" is a more standard implementation of channel changing so
>>> perhaps Cisco may actually be moving to the standard implementation. Since
>>> you guys seem to be blazing the trail here I don't have access to an
>>> RNG-150, I wonder if one of you could run stb-command
>>> (http://code.google.com/p/stb-command/) and see if it now supports some of
>>> the panel commands. Based on your results I can update the documentation to
>>> reflect its capabilities. I expect Power on/off/status to work, but the rest
>>> of the commands have traditionally not been supported by previous Cisco/SA
>>> boxes that I have tried.
>>>
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>>
>> Christian Szpilfogel,
>>
>> The following stb-command commands worked with my Cisco RNG150 settop
>> box from Comcast.
>>
>> stb-command -v -n 0 power_status
>> stb-command -v -n 0 power_on
>> stb-command -v -n 0 power_off
>> stb-command -v -n 0 channel_up
>> stb-command -v -n 0 channel_down
>>
>> Let me know if I can do anything else.
>>
>> Below my signature is the complete script output:
>>
>> Thanks, PLA
>>
>
> Patrick, thanks for this. I've updated the wiki.
>
> It is good to see at least two new commands were added. While some of the commands may be context sensitive I suspect this is a complete analysis.
>
> Just to confirm too that this is the RNG150HDC correct?
>
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Christian Szpilfogel,

You're welcome. The sticker on the bottom of the set-top box says
"RNG150 Digital Home Communications Terminal".

Here is a link to a photo of the sticker taken with my Nexus One.

http://bit.ly/RNG150Sticker

Thanks, PLA


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