[mythtv-users] Comcast STB upgrade breaks firewire channel changing
jedi
jedi at mishnet.org
Tue Mar 15 19:20:12 UTC 2011
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 01:30:16PM -0500, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Christopher Meredith
> <chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Do those boxes have USB ports? If yes, what happens when you plug in
> >> a keyboard? Can you change channels or do anything useful?
> >>
> >> I just got a microcontroller development kit and creating a USB
> >> keyboard is practically project 1.0.
> >>
> > Interesting. I can check when I get home. Though wouldn't any solution that
> > basically "emulates" a keyboard require special hardware?
>
> Yes. How badly do you want channel changing to work? :)
>
> DirecTV boxes apparently have a working USB port that works with
> keyboards, and I've always been interested in microcontrollers.
...I would be surprised if that were really the case. DTV boxes have
a hard enough time dealing with a small subset of Serial dongles and then
apparently only if the dongle and PC are powered up before the DTV STB is.
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