I emailed Cox tech support about my Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8240HDC DVR. I need to tuck it away in my cabinet but won't have line of sight to the cable/dvr box itself. I asked about using either the USB port in front or the IR 3.5" jack in back of the unit to run an IR Receiver "eye" out of the cabinet to receive my Cox remote control signals. The tech said that the IR port and the USB port were both NON-FUNCTIONAL in this model.
Has anyone tried this with any model of Cox cable box successfully? Is there a newer model (I think the 8240 is like 6 years old by now) that I could boogie on down to my Cox store and trade t;his one in for ..?
Thanks!