[mythtv-users] Disj Network or Direct TV?

Greg greg12866 at nycap.rr.com
Mon Jul 19 22:14:35 UTC 2010


On 07/19/2010 06:01 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Monday, July 19, 2010 03:54:14 pm Jeff Artz wrote:
>
>    
>>    One advantage that Dish receivers have is that they can be set to 16
>> different IR code sets, so that you can easily use ONE instance of LIRC to
>> control several set-top-boxes.
>>      
> I had always assumed that DirectTV had a similar way to handle multiple receivers, but I've never used more than one DTV
> receiver at a time.
>
> So are you saying that you would need two blasters and two instances of lirc to control two DirectTV receivers?
>
> That would make the decision for me, but I already have DISH now. I just use two different versions of the perl script that
> runs my MyBlaster, no lirc required.
>
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>    
Brian,
     I check e-bay at least once a week looking for another MyBlaster 
just in case mine burns out. I still can't figure why they went belly up....


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