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6/5/08 at 1:10pm

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Anyone know of a CECB that can be controlled via a serial connection of some sort... preferably with passthrough and S-Video out as well.

I am hoping to use 2 of them to feed my mythtv server's tuner cards. I realize I could just get more HD tuners, but I intend to leave my SD tuner cards connected to cable anyway and I thought it might be nice to get my broadcast channels in crystal clear downscaled HD rather than noisy cable when my HD tuners are in use.

Anyway, I have no interest in dealing with ir blasters... they too flaky.

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6/5/08 at 1:33pm

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See the Tivax STB-T9 thread.

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6/6/08 at 2:15am

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Originally Posted by jhfry

Anyone know of a CECB that can be controlled via a serial connection of some sort... preferably with passthrough and S-Video out as well.

FCC ID UVD20071228001 Shenzen MTC AT2016, Also known as Alpha Digital AT2016, AMTC AT2016, RJ-900ATSC, Mustek MAT-K50, an dTivax STB-T9.

This box has a serial port "for factory use only". If you connect a PC at 115200N81 you get a ZMon> prompt. Using the zir command, you can simulate the pressing of any button on the remote control.

Look in the Tivax STB-T9 EPG thread, starting around message #90.

You will need to hack your TiVo (get a shell prompt and all that) and figure out a way to get the tivo software to call a script when it needs to change channels or otherwise get control of which commands it sends (there may be a data file you can modify) or insert a programmable gadget between the two serial ports.

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6/6/08 at 6:51am

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