Many Digital cable receiver/decoders have a serial port on the back that can be connected to your PVR System and controlled by it using a script you'd have to write. Barring that, yes, you can set up a script using lirc to change channels.
From the MythTV FAQ: Is it possible to have MythTV change the channel on my digital cable/satellite box, instead of my tuner card?
- Yes. In the setup program, under "Input Connections", you can configure a command to run whenever the channel needs to be changed on an input which does not have a tuner. In the 0.7 release, this was a global option in the configuration file, "ExternalChannelCommand".
Something to consider if you live or spend time in New York:
Cingular Wireless customers cannot send nor reliably receive text messages, emails, ringtones or any other SMS-based services in the greater metro area, including north Jersey (Hoboken, Newark).
I mention this because Cingular does not, although they were vey happy to sign me up for a plan in which I pay for 100 text messages per month. They also gave me the classic "you must be doing something wrong" routine when I called asking why none of SMS messages I sent from my phone were going through.
Of course, the reason (as I found out much later by stubbornly staying on the phone one evening when TiVo was broken) is that their antennas were destroyed on September 11th and SMS-less service in the area is actually being provided under contract by AT&T Wireless who cannot integrate the messaging because of some tech stuff I don't understand.
Cingular gets some leeway in my book given the circumstances, but it does reflect poorly on the company as a whole that they were not at all up-front about this when they sold me my plan -- text messaging service and all -- in May.
It's cases like these that nudge public opinion in favor of DMCA-style bans on circumvention devices. This guy selling loads of pirated games and then the mod chips that allow people to play them is criminal activity that all of us anti-DMCA pro fair use people should recognize and identify as such. When people see headlines about "mod chips + piracy," they will often assume "mod chips = piracy," which will make them very susceptible to the rhetoric of the companies and individuals who benefit financially from that erroneous belief.
If we are going to be vocal on the unfairness of legal roadblocks to fair use in the cases dealing with DeCSS and proposed DRM legislation, we have a responsibility to be equivalently vocal in cases where technologies we advocate and claim rights to are being used illegally. If we want DeCSS to be legal despite its "side effect" of decrypting DVDs, we have to denounce those who exploit that side effect for illegal personal gain.
If we want mod chips to be a legal and accepted use of our own hardware for playing legally purchased Japanese games or burned backups of others we own, we have to speak against pirates who want to make money using mod chips and CD/DVD copying technology illegally.
Neil "There are thousands of types of people in the world: The type of people who think there are two types of people in the world, and the thousands of other types."
Damn! I just bought the new Wilco and now you're telling me I could have just downloaded it for free? Ah Christ, I'm going to try and convince the store that the disc was copy-protected so they'll give me a refund;)
This means that as far as we are aware Samba is completely unaffected by the existance of these patents.
I hate to be this guy, but they could have run this statement through spell check. This is like my second comment ever. Sigh.
I was just in that basement area this past Sunday. It is the connection between the Church St. Subway Station and the PATH train to NJ and is better described as a nice train station rather than as a basement. There are several restaurants, a Borders Book Store, and various other things. It's like a small stretch of a shopping mall. I heard on the news that they are considering using the PATH tunnels to try to get people.
In other news, though, my cell phone has never had any service down there.
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Many Digital cable receiver/decoders have a serial port on the back that can be connected to your PVR System and controlled by it using a script you'd have to write. Barring that, yes, you can set up a script using lirc to change channels.
From the MythTV FAQ:
Is it possible to have MythTV change the channel on my digital cable/satellite box, instead of my tuner card?
- Yes. In the setup program, under "Input Connections", you can configure a command to run whenever the channel needs to be changed on an input which does not have a tuner. In the 0.7 release, this was a global option in the configuration file, "ExternalChannelCommand".
Would Linus sue as himself, or would the FSF or the EFF take the case? If so, would it have to be on his behalf? IANAL, AY?
Something to consider if you live or spend time in New York:
Cingular Wireless customers cannot send nor reliably receive text messages, emails, ringtones or any other SMS-based services in the greater metro area, including north Jersey (Hoboken, Newark).
I mention this because Cingular does not, although they were vey happy to sign me up for a plan in which I pay for 100 text messages per month. They also gave me the classic "you must be doing something wrong" routine when I called asking why none of SMS messages I sent from my phone were going through.
Of course, the reason (as I found out much later by stubbornly staying on the phone one evening when TiVo was broken) is that their antennas were destroyed on September 11th and SMS-less service in the area is actually being provided under contract by AT&T Wireless who cannot integrate the messaging because of some tech stuff I don't understand.
Cingular gets some leeway in my book given the circumstances, but it does reflect poorly on the company as a whole that they were not at all up-front about this when they sold me my plan -- text messaging service and all -- in May.
Just my 2 cents.
-Neil
If we are going to be vocal on the unfairness of legal roadblocks to fair use in the cases dealing with DeCSS and proposed DRM legislation, we have a responsibility to be equivalently vocal in cases where technologies we advocate and claim rights to are being used illegally. If we want DeCSS to be legal despite its "side effect" of decrypting DVDs, we have to denounce those who exploit that side effect for illegal personal gain.
If we want mod chips to be a legal and accepted use of our own hardware for playing legally purchased Japanese games or burned backups of others we own, we have to speak against pirates who want to make money using mod chips and CD/DVD copying technology illegally.
Neil
"There are thousands of types of people in the world: The type of people who think there are two types of people in the world, and the thousands of other types."
Damn! I just bought the new Wilco and now you're telling me I could have just downloaded it for free? Ah Christ, I'm going to try and convince the store that the disc was copy-protected so they'll give me a refund ;)
This means that as far as we are aware Samba is completely unaffected by the existance of these patents. I hate to be this guy, but they could have run this statement through spell check. This is like my second comment ever. Sigh.
I was just in that basement area this past Sunday. It is the connection between the Church St. Subway Station and the PATH train to NJ and is better described as a nice train station rather than as a basement. There are several restaurants, a Borders Book Store, and various other things. It's like a small stretch of a shopping mall. I heard on the news that they are considering using the PATH tunnels to try to get people. In other news, though, my cell phone has never had any service down there.