recording Comcast digital channels with MythTV

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com>:

> 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.

I only have ivtv and firewire devices.  I've never used an IR Blaster.
So I have no clue how to set up a script to use one, where I would find
such a script, or how to use one with an HD-PVR.  Is there some tutorial?
I suspect I'll need one in the next 6 months.

> --
> Jarod Wilson
> jarod at wilsonet.com

-derek

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