Hi all - I've been using mythtv for about a month and I absolutely love
it. I already have a Tivo, and it seems that as soon as I got my mythtv
up and running, my Tivo (in a blatantly obvious spat of jealousy)
started flaking out on me.
Thus, I'm looking to replace my Tivo entirely with mythtv. ;)
One of the things that the Tivo has is serial-port channel changing
capability for cable boxes on the Series 2 models. It turns out that
the Series 1 models also have this functionality if you have hacked your
Tivo and run an enabling script. Since reverse-engineering isn't
completely illegal yet in the U.S. (I hope!) would it be possible to
sniff the serial communication between the Tivo and the cable box
(Motorola DCT2000/2224/2244) box? Then write scripts to use those
commands for external channel changing from within MythTV?
I've actually tried this, but I couldn't see any communication going
on. (Using some serial-sniffing software that I found on
freshmeat.net...)
Does this sound like a good idea? If so, could someone else give this a
shot? If it works, even though you'll still need a cable box to get
digital cable channels, you won't need an IR blaster, which is not
always reliable anyway... ;)
Thanks,
-Ian
it. I already have a Tivo, and it seems that as soon as I got my mythtv
up and running, my Tivo (in a blatantly obvious spat of jealousy)
started flaking out on me.
Thus, I'm looking to replace my Tivo entirely with mythtv. ;)
One of the things that the Tivo has is serial-port channel changing
capability for cable boxes on the Series 2 models. It turns out that
the Series 1 models also have this functionality if you have hacked your
Tivo and run an enabling script. Since reverse-engineering isn't
completely illegal yet in the U.S. (I hope!) would it be possible to
sniff the serial communication between the Tivo and the cable box
(Motorola DCT2000/2224/2244) box? Then write scripts to use those
commands for external channel changing from within MythTV?
I've actually tried this, but I couldn't see any communication going
on. (Using some serial-sniffing software that I found on
freshmeat.net...)
Does this sound like a good idea? If so, could someone else give this a
shot? If it works, even though you'll still need a cable box to get
digital cable channels, you won't need an IR blaster, which is not
always reliable anyway... ;)
Thanks,
-Ian