Controlling TV via Myth
- From: "William" <wmunson (at) rochester.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:40:20 -0500
> I have a Sharp LC series TV. It can be controlled from a PC
> via a serial port. What I really want is a way to 'click
> through' to the TV, so that I can click on a Watch Live TV
> menu option in myth, and it will set the TV from HDMI input
> to TV. I could also send channel change info via LIRC....
>
> And then click on some key - 'quit' maybe - on the remote and
> have Myth set the TV back from TV to HDMI input.
>
> Can this be done?
If your serial port interface is not standard RS-232 then you may need to
use a infra-red solution. Use lirc or another script to control a IR blaster
to send commands to the tv. You would still need to to use irexec to
generate the action from a remote button. One product that comes to mind is
the myblaster serial from www.my.tv as it directly supports
multikey/multicommand macros under linux.
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