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| Author: | Pyrofer [ Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | IRBlaster and Slow cable box |
I want to capture my Cable via the composite in on a tuner card, and control the box with an IRBlaster. However, every now and then the cable box gets miffled and takes >30seconds to change channel or respond to remote codes. Obviously, Myth wont know the cable box is being naff and may record the wrong channel. I have some electronics knowledge and was wondering the following... MythTV allows a serial port control for other cable boxes, does this use 2way traffic to verify the current channel? If so, I could build a small electronic (pic micro) interface that read the LED display on the box with channel number and sent it out the serial port. This would be easy to do and allow Myth to see what the box is doing. This requires a little hard work by me, and modding my cable box possibly, obviously i dont want to do this if its not going to work. What are peoples thoughts on this? Alternatively, can I get serial control of newer Uk, NTL Pace digital boxes? >4000 series? |
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| Author: | mac [ Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:52 pm ] |
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If the behavior is predictable you can work around it. For example, my sat box will sometime take a few seconds to think whenever it gets a "7" and it will miss the second digit. I found that it never does this twice in a row. So I aways send the channel number, wait 3 seconds, and then I send the channel number again... |
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| Author: | mattshaw [ Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:30 am ] |
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Hey Pyrofer I am in the UK, and my dad has virgin media and a set top box, and I am trying to get myth going with it. Could you possibly send me an email to the address below, and we can share experiences. |
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