Has anyone used an IR blaster to control a Sat receiver?

[hitechluddite]

I will be buying a HDD DVD recorder soon, and I haven't seen anything yet about using an IR Blaster to change channels on a Sat receiver. I don't care about TVGOS or anything like that, in fact I want to turn the TV Guide off on my unit if at all possible. I just want to be able to set the Channel for timed recordings. I have Direct TV as my Sat provider and currently here in the states there is not even a HDD TIVO unit offered for them if I wanted one. Since IR blasters can control different cable boxes there should be a way to program them to drive different receivers. Any body have any starting point to get this done? I figured since I have not tied myself to a recorder yet I can still be somewhat flexible using the possiblility of controlling my SAT receiver as part of deciding which one to buy.

[AngusMacGyver]

You can, also, program your Sat receiver to turn on at specific time and channel. My recorder doesn't have IR blaster neither my cable decoder has programation feature, then I use my PC to send IR codes directly to my cable decoder. I use Winlirc.

[hitechluddite]

I'm at about the same stage. IF I cannot get my DVD recorder to change channels on my Sat receiver. I'll have to program my old SVHS that does along with my DVD recorder.