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Originally Posted by tedebare
Hi
I purchased one of the dusky control units and can change the channels on my pace 420 foxtel stb using the supplied windows gui app no prob, however I can't work out how to get my vista media centre to interact with it.
Detailed instructions for the zapper part of the install would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
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k,
so if you have the STB as tuner 1 or 2 I would suggest using mytray as below...
If it is tuner 3 or 4.
Download and drop zapper into a directory, I used c:\zapper
Download the skycontrol command line software from:
http://www.dusky-control.com/software.shtml
http://www.dusky-control.com/softwar...2008-04-11.zip
and drop it in the same dir.
Write a script to call the command line software.
Modify the zapper.config to call the script.
I attach my script and config, as examples and aplogise for the standard.
I haven't coded for a living for a while, and it shows...
(I really should make it all into one prog, but it works, so motivation is lacking...)
I hope that helps...
(else feel free to ask for more info)
The Mytray way....
go to:
http://home.comcast.net/~timmmoore/firewire/readme.htm
Instructions are about 1/3 down the page and are pasted below...
Software for Vista is at:
http://home.comcast.net/~timmmoore/f...b-vistarc1.msi
(also on the page)
USB Sky Heenan Controller
The USB Sky Controller can be used to control Sky STBs. It plugs into the MCE machine and it does not require any drivers. Once the USB Sky Controller is installed, MyTray.exe will have two new options in the combo boxes “USB Sky” and “USB Sky Plus”, selecting one of these options for a tuner will cause the USB Sky controller to be used for channel change for this tuner. Joseph Heenan supplies controllers that support 1 or 2 STBs. MyTray supports 1 USB Sky controller for either 1 or 2 STBs, i.e. MyTray does not support using two 1 port USB Sky controllers.