recording Comcast digital channels with MythTV

[Derek Atkins]

Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> writes:

>> Keep in mind that even with this device you still need a way to change
>> the channel on the cablebox, so you need an IR blaster or something like
>> that too.
>
> Good thing there's an IR transceiver built into the HD-PVR itself. :)
>
> IR transmit and receive are both functional under Linux with a bit of
> kernel patching (or no patching at all if you're running the latest
> Fedora 11 or 12 kernels), but there's still an issue with occasional
> device hangs during a recording when the IR part is active. There's a
> new firmware and windows driver update that was just released that
> explicitly mentions fixing some issues with the IR part though, which
> may well solve the hangs...

Ah, excellent!  This is good news, and very NEW news...  It certainly
has NOT been the case until recently that the IR port works from Linux.
I'm glad to hear it does!

Does Myth support this yet?

-derek

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