D10-200 serial control

[JimmyM]

Does serial control work on the D10-200 or not? Does anyone have this working. All I can find is anecdotal evidence about it working or not. The info I've found is also a little dated.
Can anyone help out a noob. I just got a test system working and my wife already loves it. We're getting D* soon and I want to get a few D10's beforehand. The D10-200s seem a little easier to find.

[gplasky]

I think you need to get a D10-100 to use straight serial control. I think the D10-200 are USB and you're probably reading of people using a USB to serial converter.

Gerry

[dbfresh23]

The safe bet is to hunt down the D10-100s. I am not positive, but I don't think the D10-200s work reliably as stated on the DTVcontrol website. The site also says the D10-300s don’t even have a control port on them. So basically if you want it to work smoothly you’ll want those 100s. The D10-100s are still easily found on ebay, though they seem to have gotten a bit more expensive then they were when I got them.

[JimmyM]

Originally Posted by gplasky

I think you need to get a D10-100 to use straight serial control. I think the D10-200 are USB and you're probably reading of people using a USB to serial converter.

Gerry

The D10s; 100, 200, and 300 are serial control. The D11s are USB.

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

The D10s; 100, 200, and 300 are serial control. The D11s are USB.

Thanks for the clarification. Obviously I'm not a Direct TV user.

Gerry

[digitalgm]

Jimmy, I am in the process of quite a large SageTV install and I was told by a couple people that the D10-100's are the best for serial control. I just got 10 of them in yesterday and if you like I can try and test some out to make sure they work with the dtvcontrol software. The only thing that prevents me from having this now is I need to make some cables for them.

--AdamR

edit: Just checked the SG forum for you and found this thread (link). Post 5 by "Martin1" says the following :

I have two d10-100 and they both work with the low speed data port.
(with a SA tivo) The D10-200 and 300 don't work)

[dbfresh23]

The D10-100 boxes do work, myself and many others on this forum are using them.

[digitalgm]

Originally Posted by dbfresh23

The D10-100 boxes do work, myself and many others on this forum are using them.

dbfresh : did you purchase a cable from the dtvcontrol.com guy or did you make one for yourself?

[dbfresh23]

I made them myself. I went to the dollar store, bought a couple of telephone handset cables and cut one end off and crimped an RJ45 end on and then connected it to an RJ45 to DB9 adapter - works flawlessly.

[digitalgm]

Originally Posted by dbfresh23

I made them myself. I went to the dollar store, bought a couple of telephone handset cables and cut one end off and crimped an RJ45 end on and then connected it to an RJ45 to DB9 adapter - works flawlessly.

Thats a good idea - do you have the coiled cords? :-p

[dbfresh23]

Yeah they are coiled. Another option is to use serial cables and just cut them in half and crimp an RJ9(I think) end on each half and you've got 2 cables...

[mike1961]

You may easily build your own cable as well. I built 4. See my schematic:

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/atta...0&d=1141627126

Mike

[digitalgm]

Although somewhat of a crude drawing, it gets the point across. My eyes started to blur when I looked at the table on dtvcontrol.com

AdamR

[mike1961]

Yes - crude but simple. For hours, I knew there were 3 wires and I could not find anything telling me which one goes to which and even when they said #1 or #2 I wasn't sure if that was the "male" or "female" end of the db9 (by default, I know now unless otherwise specified it does refer to the male pins - my numbers refer of course to the female connector as specified). "A picture is worth a thousand words."

Mike

[digitalgm]

Originally Posted by mike1961

Yes - crude but simple. For hours, I knew there were 3 wires and I could not find anything telling me which one goes to which and even when they said #1 or #2 I wasn't sure if that was the "male" or "female" end of the db9 (by default, I know now unless otherwise specified it does refer to the male pins - my numbers refer of course to the female connector as specified). "A picture is worth a thousand words."

Mike

Great job none the less mike! I will certainly be using this drawing when I make some cables this weekend.