{"id":93,"date":"2006-08-03T13:44:14","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T19:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.89.31.222\/~wkblogco\/?p=93"},"modified":"2008-04-11T15:45:45","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T21:45:45","slug":"serial-control-for-directv-receivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2006\/08\/serial-control-for-directv-receivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Serial Control For DirecTV Receivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of our customers want the best of both worlds &#8211; DirecTV, plus TiVo networking features and maybe even DVD. DirecTV TiVos don&#8217;t do networking or DVD, so these customers opt to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/tivo.php\">standalone TiVos<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/dvd-tivo.php\">DVD TiVos<\/a> with a DirecTV receiver. This has always worked pretty well. Until recently.<\/p>\n<p>DirecTV &#8216;updated&#8217; to their latest basic receiver model, the D11. The D11 doesn&#8217;t have a serial port, so the only way for a TiVo to control it is to use an IR blaster. While they certainly work, they aren&#8217;t the best option. The speed isn&#8217;t perfect, there can be IR interference, and, probably the biggest source of problems, the blaster can move.<\/p>\n<p>DirecTV&#8217;s previous unit, the D10, has a serial port, and the TiVo (standalone or DVD) can control it directly, with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/tivo-cables.php\">Home Control cable<\/a>. This eliminates all of the problems listed above.<\/p>\n<p>WeaKnees has sourced brand-new D10 receivers, and we are optionally bundling them with the Home Control cable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/directv-d10-tivo.php\">D10 DirecTV Receivers for TiVo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of our customers want the best of both worlds &#8211; DirecTV, plus TiVo networking features and maybe even DVD. DirecTV TiVos don&#8217;t do networking or DVD, so these customers opt to use standalone TiVos or DVD TiVos with a DirecTV receiver. This has always worked pretty well. Until recently. DirecTV &#8216;updated&#8217; to their latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}