Ed Morrison wrote:
>>I believe you would have to use a DISH Network tuner box with an analog
>>video capture board. As long as the tuner box accepts commands over a
>>serial link, you should be able to have MythTV change the channels.
>>
>>I don't know of any boards that work with MythTV that support satellite
>>or digital cable. Only broadcast tv, analog cable or over the air HDTV.
>>In order to get satellite or digital cable, you need a tuner box for the
>>system.
>>
>>Dave
>
>
> Dave,
>
> I found this How to, that supports what you said and provides a way for
> Dish Network subscribers to make and use their own MythTV system:
>
> http://losdos.dyndns.org:8080/public/mythtv-info/MythTV_DISH_IR_LED_TX_via_Modified_LIRC.html#Note_for_MultiDISH_users
I use the solution outlined here and it works great for me. No
soldering, no funky lirc setup, it just works:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/85663
Also, I don't think CentOS makes a good Myth distro, mainly because Myth
uses some bleeding-edge stuff sometimes so it's better to use a more
current distro, IMO. I use Gentoo. This is not a knock against CentOS,
it certainly has it's place in my server room.
--Ajay
