digital ota channels called from the remote?

[philhu]

I know this was discussed, how to make the stb/remote go directly to an ota channel, like 44-3

Well, people said it wasn't important, since it just took a few more keystrokes to get there.

Well, I found a reason to need it. If you control voom, using something in a home theatre pc, and sagetv, then it cannot change channels to record shows on ota channels!

I am testing using stretch mode from to voom to svideo, going into the htpc with stretch mode and doing a forced expand in the sagetv program. Looks pretty good and gets me widescreen 480p!! Better than nothing!

But I find I cannot get the voom stb to ota channels from the pc.

Any ideas?

 

[Ilya]

Not sure what HTPC can or cannot do. But with most programmable remotes (including Harmony) you can save a short macro for switching to a specific channel. For example, for 44-3, that macro would be: "4-4-OK-Up-Up"

 

[philhu]

hmmmmm

I never thought of that. I'll play some more.

Maybe I can work it out!