using linux to change channels on satellite

[Kirk Wood]

Brent please, please RTFM before asking your questions. I am wondering,
did you bother to go look on freshmeat.net? Just for the record, I really
doubt that any satalite service requires a seperate dish for each
show. That would reach qay beyond insane and stupid. It does confirm that
once again you are asking for a solution to a problem that doesn't even
really yet exist.

One last thing is this frequency within the chanel bit. I have seen
several satalite TV systems. Without exception all of them work just like
a cable box or remote TV. You have a bunch of chanels and you select them
via remote. Considering that these products are being marketed to truely
stupid people you should be able to figure something out. If a person who
can't set the clock on a VCR can use a satalite dish, you should be able
to figure it out. If you can't, I really doubt a computer will do anything
beyond making a simple thing complicated.

Fianlly, write somethign yourself. You can buy the parts you need from
x10.com. No, I won't give any details. Figure something out yourself.

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Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net