MCE Firewire Set-Top Box Channel Changing Hack
By Alexander Grundner |
May 11th, 2005 
Developer’s who are apart of the TGB community never cease to amaze me. It looks like member Tim Moore figured out a way to forgo using an IR baster to control a set-top box using his MCE PC via Firewire (via The Nears). Tim writes, “I have 2 DCT-6200 connected to a MCE2005 system. The attached zip file contains a readme and a bunch of files that allow media center to use the firewire to change channel. I no longer use the IR blaster and find channel changing much more reliable.”
Short URL: http://bit.ly/ajGlhB [+] Filed in: Streaming Media Devices
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Alexander Grundner is the Editor & Publisher of eHomeUpgrade. He has been following "Digital Home" developments since 2003. He's also a fan of cross-platform, open development software and industry standards related to media, networking, and the web. You can catch his daily tech musings on Twitter: @agrundner.