Here's why: When the box starts, it looks for a specific communication between itself and the attached computer.
There is a tool called Digidebug (known as Libby in the incarnation leaked into 'the wild') which is apparently able to provide full control of a Pace Digibox (and cable boxes too). There is no report on things done in menus. Pressing " tv guide", " box office", " services", or " interactive":Ġ47SYFS0081SYD1034Press Sky For Channel Audio01 Leaving ITV teletext behaves as for leaving BBCi. The same thing happens for " red" button presses on ITV1.įor " text" button presses on ITV1, we see: Entering the full interactive service shows no further prompts, including when changing channel.Įxiting the service reports: ( the odd spacing is due to justification)ġ67SSCN010984SSCA018BBC 1 SouthSSDT02610.56pm Sat 24 JunSST001410.43pmSSN0017åBBC NewsçSSE0077National and international news from the BBC. Pressing " red" or " text" on BBC1 reports:Ġ47SYIA0081SYD1034Press Sky For Channel Audiof2 If you press ' back up' while changing channels, it will resubmit the previous keypress information. I only though of this as I wrote this document, so I'll need to play around with it later on.
Most likely the weird code for the ' 0' is because this kicks in the four-digit radio channel.
Nulls, that sort of thing.Ġ14SYIC009-ca when " back up" to cancel.Ġ14SYIC009-ca when " back up" to cancel (as above, you'll notice the codes are the same).Ġ16CE00011 x -21 (the ' x' is ASCII 127)Ġ41CE00010111 followed by time informationĪs you can see, the dashes are replaced with the three digits of the channel number as you enter it. Note that there may well be embedded codes that HyperTerminal has not shown or has stripped. Here are the results of pressing various things on the remote controller.