<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Mark Knecht <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markknecht@gmail.com">markknecht@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Brad Fuller <<a href="mailto:bradallenfuller@gmail.com">bradallenfuller@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Mark Knecht <<a href="mailto:markknecht@gmail.com">markknecht@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Hi,<br>
>> Comcast is giving me 3 of these 'free', low-end digital converter<br>
>> boxes. Instead of using them on TVs I was wondering whether Myth can<br>
>> tune them and I'll used them as a digital frontend to my PVR-150's. Is<br>
>> this possible?</div></blockquote><div><br>Yes - You would feed the S-Video and Sterio Audio outputs into your PVR-150<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">>> These boxes have no USB or 1394 interfaces. There is an IR<br>
>> connector for attaching a remote IR receiver if that helps. If you<br>
>> need more info let me know but there isn't much more to these small<br>
>> boxes.</div></blockquote><div><br>I don't know the specifications on the port, but you could put IR blaster 'eyes' on each box. Where it gets a bit tricky is that all the boxes will respond to the same IR codes, so you'll need multiple instances of lirc, one for each box, to control them. <br>
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The one I got was a Pace:<br>
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<a href="http://www.pace.com/americas/home/index.asp" target="_blank">http://www.pace.com/americas/home/index.asp</a><br>
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I don't see the model on the website. It's really, really low end but<br>
it does work.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>What is the model number??? <br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> If you don't use them for a front end, I guess the only way to use<br>
> them to record for myth is to use a IR Blaster to change channels. Is<br>
> that a plan of yours?<br>
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</div>I don't know about the IR Blaster. What is it? If it's some IR<br>
transmitter that Myth can control, and if Myth can control multiple IR<br>
Blasters, then I suppose I could paste an IR Blaster over the IR input<br>
of the converter and maybe that would work. Doesn't sound all that<br>
reliable and certainly would be ugly.</blockquote><div><br>I use IR Blasters with Dish network receivers. They are reliable - I haven't missed a channel change in 2+ years.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Better in my mind would be a cable going directly from my backend to<br>
the IR input port on the back of the converter. No actual IR but<br>
sending the same data over a serial or analog cable. Is that possible?</blockquote><div><br>Probably, but without specs on the receiver and/or the port, I can't say for sure. <br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It's good that we're getting a few more months to figure this out I suppose.<br>
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One of my plans was just to rent a couple more STBs if I could find<br>
models that could be controlled by Myth. I've not studied this AT ALL!<br>
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- Mark<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>J-e-f-f-A<br>