Updated DirecTV Serial Control - TRY ME!

[camus]

Works for me, I couldn't get below channel 200 before.

RCA DRD435RH

Thanks, It is my second day with Sage, I knew there was an issue with the serial control and it has been fixed. Cheers.

[Homebuilder]

Hi,

About to switch to Direct Tv, I hear the old D10-100's can be controled, I see from this thread that the newer USB's can be controled, is that right?

Any list showing which new ones/old ones can be controled?

Be great to know before I order!

Thanks

[jelevin]

I'm also planning a switch to directv. I'm inferring that the channel changing can either be via a usb-ir device or a serial cable. Is there some FAQ or guidance as to the best approach (easiest, most reliable, least expensive). Anything I should know before I order and install directv? I haven't found a thread on this forum that addresses this. Thanks!

[dbfresh23]

It's not really a SageTV guide, but there's a list at www.dtvcontrol.com which indicates which receivers have been successfully controled via serial.

[jkproctor]

Originally Posted by Hector

I am assuming this is the same .dll in 5.0.3

I had to swap back to the old library because this one keeps sending something that makes the guide pop up on the screen. Not sure if its just at reboot or at a channel change, etc.

This partucular D* box is an older one, Sony SAT B3, I think its a 2nd gen. Beforehand it was working perfectly. At the time I had some people drop by and I didn't have time to isolate the problem but LMK if I can provide more info.

peace . . .

I can not get this to work with my sony sat b3. I am using a trial version 5.0.4 any chance someone could post the 5.02 dll so I could try that. Thanks

[Hector]

i have the exact same box and this older .dll works perfectly.

peace . . .

[jkproctor]

Thanks Hector that worked!!!

[Hector]

My pleasure. The Sony SAT B3 boxes we have are about 10 years old. I'm sure that now Sage knows about the issue it will be addressed in a future release.

peace . . .

Originally Posted by jkproctor

Thanks Hector that worked!!!

[Wakecrash]

Originally Posted by Homebuilder

Hi,

About to switch to Direct Tv, I hear the old D10-100's can be controled, I see from this thread that the newer USB's can be controled, is that right?

Any list showing which new ones/old ones can be controled?

Be great to know before I order!

Thanks

I don't see where someone said it will control a Directv reciever with a USB port. What I believe Jeff stated was it could be controled using a USB to Serial converter. I take this to mean, USB on PC connected to RS232 serial port of Directv reciever.

Just FYI, I now have overkill when it comes to USB to serial control, I dug an Edgeport 416 out of the trash at work. Now I only have 12 more RS232 ports free.

[whobday]

I have a Sony SAT-A3 and SAT-A4. Neither works with the new DLL, but they both work perfectly when I switch to the old one.

[dbfresh23]

Originally Posted by Wakecrash

I don't see where someone said it will control a Directv reciever with a USB port. What I believe Jeff stated was it could be controled using a USB to Serial converter. I take this to mean, USB on PC connected to RS232 serial port of Directv reciever.

I actually took it the other way, didn't seem like there would be any point in stating this since there's already a bunch of people doing it. I took it as people could hook a usb-serial adapter into the usb port on their D11 and it would work. Maybe Narflex should clear this up.

[nickmpower]

If this is the one that came with the newest version of sage, then it didnt work for me. It would enter the channel numbers, but it wouldnt send an enter command. i have an rca drd480

[MattHelm]

Originally Posted by Hector

i have the exact same box and this older .dll works perfectly.

peace . . .

This also fixed my problem with TuneItAll, third party to control a 4DTV reciever. Hope they can somehow get the new software to work the new way AND the old way!

[camus]

Originally Posted by camus

Works for me, I couldn't get below channel 200 before.

RCA DRD435RH

Thanks, It is my second day with Sage, I knew there was an issue with the serial control and it has been fixed. Cheers.

Disregard. This file does not work with the RCA DRD435RH. It seemed to but had an issue with channels 500 range, (I didn't test 400).

Upon restart, waking from standy-by, or just closing and then launching SageTV, if these channels were the first to be tuned, through the program guide or a scheduled recording, the guide would pop up in direct tv. Now if Sage was already opened and had turned to another channel previously, it would hit the 500 channels normally.

I tried the file provide by Hector above and everything has been working normally. Thanks Hector!

[Hector]

As much as I like to take credit for good deeds the file above is just the original .dll that had come with Sage for a long time before it was replaced with this one.

peace . . .

[LazyGun]

Originally Posted by Narflex

Peanut-Butter, please send an email to betatest at sagetv.com and we'll see what we can do get that integrated.

Apologies for bumping an old(ish) thread,
but did an email get sent, and was any work done to integrate the SIR-TS360 with the serial control?

Thanks

[Hector]

In the past that box was not able to be controlled via serial (limitation of the box itself).

Has that changed?

peace . . .

Originally Posted by LazyGun

Apologies for bumping an old(ish) thread,
but did an email get sent, and was any work done to integrate the SIR-TS360 with the serial control?

Thanks

[LazyGun]

Originally Posted by Hector

In the past that box was not able to be controlled via serial (limitation of the box itself).

Has that changed?

peace . . .

Yeah, I'm not sure tbh. I know that it is a crestron port, and someone over at AV Forums wrote a girder script to send HEX commands via a serial cable to it.

According to the post (which is 2 years old now), the hex commands were:

Com port setting need to be: none 8 1 none 5760

Off 2A6474764A0D0A
On 2A647476490D0A
5 2A647476350D0A
0 2A647476300D0A
9 2A647476390D0A
Enter 2A647476480D0A
1 2A647476310D0A
2 2A647476320D0A
3 2A647476330D0A
4 2A647476340D0A
6 2A647476360D0A
7 2A647476370D0A
8 2A647476380D0A
ch+ 2A6474763E0D0A
ch- 2A6474763D0D0A

My knowledge ends about there though My RS232 programming knowhow is squat.

[Hector]

I had this receiver myself but switched to HD Tivo since Sage (or any other 3rd party) can't record D* HD programming. Of course I still prefer Sage and use it for everything possible since Tivo is an unfeatured slowwwww clunker by comparison. Actually it's slow whether you compare it or not

But anyway if it can be done usually this tool is a good test. Unfortunately it seems not (scroll down to find the samsung).

http://www.dtvcontrol.com/index.aspx?content=cable

Originally Posted by LazyGun

Yeah, I'm not sure tbh. I know that it is a crestron port, and someone over at AV Forums wrote a girder script to send HEX commands via a serial cable to it.

According to the post (which is 2 years old now), the hex commands were:


My knowledge ends about there though My RS232 programming knowhow is squat.

[LazyGun]

Yeah, i checked that site out again today. I wasn't sure how often the plugin was updated though, as I know Sage has it built in now.
And I have no idea how easy it would be to send straight hex commands across an rs232 connection.
As the port is used for Crestron home automation, I would have thought that all the Crestron kit does is use a particular command set, which would also just be a data stream sent across the rs232 connection.

Ah well...wishful thinking. Maybe I should just dump DirecTV and switch to cable, and hope that I can control those receivers
Or buy another DTV receiver....