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Sky box and RS-232 connetor
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My standaed Sky digi box has a RS-232 port. As I'm a total ignoramous on this subject, can I connect my computer to the port and down load anything from the Sky box?
Prorbaly not as the great majority of people would be doing it!
Or is the simple way to get a PCI video card and get a scart cable to whatever connector is on the video card? B
Prorbaly not as the great majority of people would be doing it!
Or is the simple way to get a PCI video card and get a scart cable to whatever connector is on the video card? B
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The RS-232 port on the sky box is to connect a Sky Gnome gadget to the box more details here: http://www.sky.com/gnome
It's only used to download program information to the Gnome i.e. Current Channel Number, Channel Name, Time, Name of program, brief description. If you want to connect the port to a computer and use hyperterminal to look at the data there are details for the encoding methods here: http://www.heenan.me.uk/control-sky-from-pc/gn ome-protocol.html
It can only be used to read currently playing program information, nothing more unfortunately.
It's only used to download program information to the Gnome i.e. Current Channel Number, Channel Name, Time, Name of program, brief description. If you want to connect the port to a computer and use hyperterminal to look at the data there are details for the encoding methods here: http://www.heenan.me.uk/control-sky-from-pc/gn ome-protocol.html
It can only be used to read currently playing program information, nothing more unfortunately.
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