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Hardware Support Discussions related to using various hardware setups with SageTV products. Anything relating to capture cards, remotes, infrared receivers/transmitters, system compatibility or other hardware related problems or suggestions should be posted here.

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Old 06-06-2003, 12:20 PM
gpurcey gpurcey is offline
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Using DirecTV Serial Control

I have been working for two days now trying to get the SAGE TV program control my Sony Satellite receiver. I am getting close, but still seem to be missing a piece of the puzzle. I am new to this, so should you reply, please don't assume too much about what I might know.

I have sucessfully used the Direct TV Control application to control my sat receiver. And finally, it seems that I can control the receiver with the SAGE TV application, but only if I have the DirecTV Control.exe running and minimized. I have several questions:

1. Does Sage TV require the DirecTV Control.exe program to be running in order to control a satellite via serial port?

2. Other than making the registry entries for the EXE Tuner plug-in and making sure it is in the Frey/Common directory, is there anything else that has to be done with it?

3. Is there anywhere I can find a step-by-step installation with the necessary files in order to use DTVCon to send commands to the serial port?

4. Is Girder another possibility, or is it somehow required even if I use DTVCon?

I'm sorry if I don't know the right questions to ask, but I feel I am close to getting things to work, but not quite there.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

I should also mention that I am running Windows XP and using the WinTV PVR-250 Card.

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Old 11-12-2003, 09:38 PM
DashDanger DashDanger is offline
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gpurcey
Did you ever answer these questions? I've just downloaded SageTV and I plan to control a Sony Directv unit as well. I'm new to all of this and I have some of the same questions.

So what's the best setup for controling a Sony Directv rcv. with SageTv. I have an EPIA M9000 computer with a Hauppauge PVR-350 card.
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Old 11-12-2003, 10:22 PM
GbrNole GbrNole is offline
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dash, it's built into sage now. provided your sony is supported (which it should be) all you really have to do is hook the cable up, fire sage up and surf away.
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Old 11-14-2003, 10:14 PM
DashDanger DashDanger is offline
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Your are correct sir. I got my cable hooked up and it worked as you said. This is really cool. Now if I can just figure out this remote I'll be in high cotton.
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Old 11-17-2003, 11:16 AM
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Does this help with the remote: http://www.freytechnologies.com/Remote%20Commands.pdf
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