Comments on: Control Your DirecTV Receiver From Your DVR Via USB http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/09/07/control-your-directv-receiver-from-your-dvr-via-usb/ TiVo, Slingbox, Blu-ray Disc, and whatever tech I feel like blogging about... Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:48:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Gryphon http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/09/07/control-your-directv-receiver-from-your-dvr-via-usb/comment-page-1/#comment-25428 Gryphon Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:46:35 +0000 http://www.gizmolovers.com/?p=2942#comment-25428 Investigation reveals that it's one of the later-rev D10s, so apparently this gadget won't work with it. (I presumably thought it was a more recent model than it is because I received it fairly recently, but then, there's no telling how long it sat on a shelf in a warehouse before that.) Investigation reveals that it’s one of the later-rev D10s, so apparently this gadget won’t work with it. (I presumably thought it was a more recent model than it is because I received it fairly recently, but then, there’s no telling how long it sat on a shelf in a warehouse before that.)

]]> By: MegaZone http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/09/07/control-your-directv-receiver-from-your-dvr-via-usb/comment-page-1/#comment-25427 MegaZone Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:17:21 +0000 http://www.gizmolovers.com/?p=2942#comment-25427 So what model receiver do you have. Maybe I should get you one of these to do a review on. :-) So what model receiver do you have. Maybe I should get you one of these to do a review on. :-)

]]> By: Gryphon http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/09/07/control-your-directv-receiver-from-your-dvr-via-usb/comment-page-1/#comment-25426 Gryphon Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:24:32 +0000 http://www.gizmolovers.com/?p=2942#comment-25426 The home automation port's still there on at least one more recent (within the last year or two) DTV receiver model, but for some reason DTV deliberately gimped the box's OS so that it only partially works. Mine, for example, can't be ordered to change to any channel below 100 through the port, which prevents me from viewing the local channels (all of which have numbers down in the old VHF range). Annoying, but nowhere near as annoying as constantly recording the wrong thing because of IR Blaster failure. The home automation port’s still there on at least one more recent (within the last year or two) DTV receiver model, but for some reason DTV deliberately gimped the box’s OS so that it only partially works. Mine, for example, can’t be ordered to change to any channel below 100 through the port, which prevents me from viewing the local channels (all of which have numbers down in the old VHF range). Annoying, but nowhere near as annoying as constantly recording the wrong thing because of IR Blaster failure.

]]> By: greg_burns http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/09/07/control-your-directv-receiver-from-your-dvr-via-usb/comment-page-1/#comment-25425 greg_burns Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:43:52 +0000 http://www.gizmolovers.com/?p=2942#comment-25425 Bought one of these gizmos for my dad's S2 last year (he has the H20-600 HD DirecTv receiver). Channel changing is instantaneous, unlike RF (which, while works, is problematic to setup for the H20). I really wasn't expecting the instant channel changing! I had gotten so used to seeing the the 3 digits appear 1 second at a time. Was it worth $50? Maybe, maybe not. But it sure does work well. Bought one of these gizmos for my dad’s S2 last year (he has the H20-600 HD DirecTv receiver).

Channel changing is instantaneous, unlike RF (which, while works, is problematic to setup for the H20). I really wasn’t expecting the instant channel changing! I had gotten so used to seeing the the 3 digits appear 1 second at a time.

Was it worth $50? Maybe, maybe not. But it sure does work well.

]]> By: Ben Drawbaugh http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/09/07/control-your-directv-receiver-from-your-dvr-via-usb/comment-page-1/#comment-25423 Ben Drawbaugh Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:22:45 +0000 http://www.gizmolovers.com/?p=2942#comment-25423 It's been possible to control the DirecTV STBs with a cheap RS-232 to usb adapter since as along as I can remember, but it's good to see a more universal approach with additional features. It’s been possible to control the DirecTV STBs with a cheap RS-232 to usb adapter since as along as I can remember, but it’s good to see a more universal approach with additional features.

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