Motorola DTC2000 Plugin

[salsbst]

Originally posted by rich
Hello, could someone tell me where I could find the file refered to earlier in this thread "mscomm32.ocx".

Thanks!

Near the bottom of the page: http://www.martin2k.co.uk/vb6/vb6download.php

[dman]

Is there any way to check on a DCT2000 if the serial port is enabled? Via the setup/cable box/ see configuration menu or other. Any help would be much appreciated.

[Beelzebub]

dman does it use the TVGuide menu's

[dman]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by TVGuide menu's. I can tell you that when I hit the menu button it brings up a number of options wherein I can select setup, cable box, and see configuration. I assumed there might be an entry on this screen that would tell you. I also can bring up another menu by hitting select within a couple of second of turning off the unit. I was wondering if either of these screens could tell me for sure whether or not the serial connection/ low speed data port was on.

[justme]

dman does it use the TVGuide menu's

Do you mean that big red "TV Guide" logo that is inserted into any OSD on my cable box.

[gpurcey]

First let me say thanks for getting a plug in to work with the cable boxes.

I have a Motorola 2244 and am running SageTV 1.4 using the EXE plug in as described earlier in this thread. I experienced all the same problems, and used the same solutions.

I can now change the channels on my cable box from Sage. It works quite well, with the following exception: Whenever I select a new channel from the channel guide (SAGE guide) or type in a new channel, I get some message about either the Ring indicator state has changed or the carrier detect state has changed. These appear in small dialog boxes with the title "Project 1". I assume they are being generated from the dct.exe program. IF I use only the channel up or channel down option, it seems I do not get these messages.

Can anyone give me any ideas on how to get these to stop appearing? I did experiment with the ACTISYS IR200L IR control just prior to trying the serial port control. Do you think this may have something to do with it?

Thanks for any help anyone might have.

[gpurcey]

Thanks John for the revised dct.exe. It does not give me the before mentioned messages. Great job.

I am having difficulty within the Sage program getting it to change to a single digit channel. It seems to be stripping the leading zeros. I noticed that dct.exe from the command line seems to not care if there are leading zeros or not, and on mine always seems to successfully change the channel. But from Sage I seem to have a problem with the cable box ignoring the zeros and doesn't change. The up and down channel from Sage works fine.

I hope this makes sense to someone not familiar with my system!

If anyone has a suggestion, I'm listening...

[dballer1]

KJake

I have the same issues. Did you ever get the serial line to work?

[Beelzebub]

Originally posted by gpurcey
Thanks John for the revised dct.exe. It does not give me the before mentioned messages. Great job.

I am having difficulty within the Sage program getting it to change to a single digit channel. It seems to be stripping the leading zeros. I noticed that dct.exe from the command line seems to not care if there are leading zeros or not, and on mine always seems to successfully change the channel. But from Sage I seem to have a problem with the cable box ignoring the zeros and doesn't change. The up and down channel from Sage works fine.

I hope this makes sense to someone not familiar with my system!

If anyone has a suggestion, I'm listening...

I kind have a small idea, of whats going on. I don't have time right now to work on it working alot overtime for Xmas. Just keep in touch and maybe we can jump on irc and mess with a few things.

[gpurcey]

Yeah, I can identify with the busy schedule...
I haven't had time to check into it any more myself.
Hope you have a great Thanksgiving and I really appreciate the help you've already been.

[wagner]

just wanted to add i had an easy time setting up and no problems using with my motorola DCT2224.

thanks Beelzebub!

[wmsbrum]

How do you get the revised copy of dct? I kep getting the "Project1" messages.

Thanks,
Wmsbrum

[ChuckD]

has anyone had any luck with the General Instrument Digital Cable Boxes?

[RadioDave2K]

I am unsure of all of the various hardware being discussed here to communicate with the DCT-2000. However, I can tell you that the DCT-2000, DCT-2224 and DCT-2244 can be communicated with serially if the box is not running any additional software installed by your cable company as some may take the port over for other applications. Most of the time, there is not any except for the TV Guide/Gemstar stuff will not hurt serial comm. The box must be running 7.54 f/w or newer.

Your cable company MUST activate the port for you. You should talk to the person that runs that computer for sending out activation hits at your cable co.

I am an AMX programmer (home automation stuff) and am currently in the proces of trying to get serial comm established with a DCT-2000 on my own.

Later versions of TiVo can communicate serially with the DCT-2xxx. If anyone out there can sniff out the data being sent to the cable box from their TiVo, I would greatly appreciate it. Hex, binary or ASCII strings would be great.

I am trying to find someone locally here that has a TiVo so that I can take my stuff to their place and start sniffing.

Once again, if anyone has any string information related to the DCT-2xxx, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thank you very much,

David Rosenbloom
http://www.commtechsys.com

[Thet]

The link to the cable box software 1st posted in this thread is dead. Could someone who downloaded the executable please repost it for us new users?

Thanks!

[ry12a]

Has anyone made contact with a DCT2500 serial port yet?

[Crowdx42]

Where can I get the dct.exe file? Also the link at the top of this thread does not work for me?

[Beelzebub]

I just moved, and the cable company instead of transferring everything. They just transferred the internet. I lost all my emails, and webspace. I think this might have to call for a free month, since I lost my website. I have it all backed up, but its on my Jazz drive, and I don't think this PC could handle the scsi card and drive.

[dkardatzke]

Please let us know if we can be any help in posting the Tuner plugin if your site has become unavailable.

Dan

[Orthogonite]

Has the Tuner plugin been made available anywhere else on this site or the web? I would love to try it out, but as others have pointed out the original link is dead.