[mythtvnz] Controlling a sky box without a serial port

[Steven Ellis]

Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, March 23, 2006 3:27 pm, Steven Ellis wrote:
>   
>> Need to setup a USB or other solution that can control a sky or cable
>> box without building a serial based dongle as the HW has no serial
>> ports. Any tips?
>>
>> Steve
>>     
>
> DSE XH8290 is a usb to serial dongle and has linux drivers. Then attach
> your standard serial IR Device.
>
>   
Yeah thats a bit too much of a hack. Really after a pure USB device.

Steve