recording Comcast digital channels with MythTV

[Jarod Wilson]

On Dec 3, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> 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.

Yep, I finished up the initial patches to enable it just a few weeks ago.

> I'm glad to hear it does!
> 
> Does Myth support this yet?

If you're talking about the video hardware portion, yes, fully supported in MythTV 0.22. For the IR part, MythTV doesn't care. You just set up your channel change script like you always have, now containing irsend commands that operate on the transmitter device lirc sets up for the IR part.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com