More Info on the USB connection!
First off, I want to make something clear. The information I am providing is not for HACKING the VoOm signals. Digicypher is secure and has not been broken (to my knowledge) and is beyond the scope of this forum and my expertise. The primary reasion for this work is to figure out if better ways exist to CONTROL the VoOm box. Basically IR sucks! If a serial or network connection can be achieved then connection to TiVo or other automation systems would make my (and I hope others) life easier. That said, here is the latest...
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I connected a linksys wireless usb network adapter (WUSB11, 2.4 GHZ 802.11b) to the Voom receiver. It gave me an IP address. I pinged the IP address and it was live. I then went to my computer and started searching for the ip. To my surprise it gave me the sharedocs folder that contained two folders --my music & shared pictures. Recognize these folders--microsoft? I had to make sure I was looking at the right computer so I disconnected the wireless adapter from the VOOM receiver and when I ping the ip again it was not active.
I opened a DOS session and use netstat to check the connection and it gave me two ports were the connection was established on the foreign address:
(1) Microsoft-ds (445)
(2) netbios-ssn (139)
Anyone have other usb network adapters to try?
GG
