Re: Dixons ITVdigiboxes

[Doogie Brodie <ukhad@xxxxxxx>]

Stuart Booth (Stuart Booth) wrote:
> Yup, that's the eventual plan after I read that idea here sometime
> ago. But I have no X10 gear in the house with which to implement
this.
> I'm guessing that it's a case of CM12A (or something like that)
> interface from the PC, some s/w on the PC to send the timed
command
> (e.g. HomeSeer or homebrew), and an X10 module that the ONdodgy
box
> plugs into.
> Or is there a simpler way?

Yeah, something to send timed X10... you could get away with one of the
bedside alarm clocks (I use 3 of them and have never bothered finding 
out how the timer bit works.....!)

You could of course buy one of el-cheapo 24 hour rotating timer things 
which you put pegs in I'm sure..... not sure what granularity you can 
get on them.... obviously you don't really want your box off for an hour
because there's a much higher chance of you missing a recording that 
way, than if it was a 5 minute cycle.

> Does it turn on again automatically, or turn on when the first
button
> press arrives at it from TiVo?
> My Sony SkyDodgyBox (<LOL>! SkyDodgyBox I like that) went into
standby
> at one point and I had a load of nothing on the TiVo. I mean to
fiddle
> and explore the details but time is my enemy it seems at the
moment.

Two things here..... use Grundig 20016 codes for the Tivo.... this 
always sends a Sky command to wake up the box.... this means the Tivo 
always wakes up the Sky box, but if you've just hard reset it, it might
take a wee minute to wake up, meaning it might miss the channel 
change.... depends on your box. You can either get one of the memo zaps
or digimemo from http://www.pacelink.co.uk/ or you can
set a manual 
repeat recording for 5 minutes just after your reboot time.... basic 
quality, keep at most 1, which will always switch on your box and record
whatever channel you've told it to. If you're doing it that way, make 
sure your clocks are in sync.... :)

-- 
Doogie



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