[Cialug] Serial port problem

[Dave Weis]

If you are using an RCA receiver with a "Home Control" port, be sure it is 
set to "Low Speed Data" and not "Home Control".
???

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Tony Bibbs wrote:

> I've got my Myth box mostly working.  The last thing to get working is 
> configuring my DirectTV D10-300 box to change channels via the pvr-250 
> remote.  Which had let me to this small useful how to:
>
> http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-October/107586.html
>
> Got the special serial cable, got the script installed, upgraded the software 
> on the settop box but when I run the scriptI get timeout errors.  I have two 
> serial ports, /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 and when I configure the script to 
> use either it doesn't work.  When I run the script in verbose mode I get 
> stuff like:
>
> myth bin # ./directv.pl port /dev/ttyS0 box_type D10-100 setup_channel 13
> SEND: 0xFA [?] 0x82 [?]
> RECV: Timeout Error
>
> I tried to cat both ports (e.g. cat /dev/ttyS0) but it just returns me 
> quietly back to a blinking prompt.  I guess now I'm looking for suggestions 
> on how to troubleshoot this further.
>
> --Tony
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