MythTV also has a module for your phone so CID pops up, has built in VOIP capabilities, weather, news, DVD's, music, games, and some sort of
Only wish they supported my old dvd decoder cards, one less item in the stereo cabinet!
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 14:25 -0600, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
On Thursday 23 December 2004 12:22 pm, Brad wrote:
I have a MythTV box about 90% functional. I am just working through getting the IR receiver and serial port control of my cable box going. MyhtTV is a really nice setup. I built it on Fedora Core 3 and followed Jarod Wilson's guide at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php. Let me know if you need more information.
What hardware are you using? Is the serial port control an alternative to using an IR transmitter from the PC to control the cable box? Any particular challanges?
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I am using a Celeron 2.4 Gig CPU, Audigy 2 sound card, GForce 4 video card for TV out and a PVR250 for capture. This is all standard hardware and recommended by Jarod's how-to. Since it is not fully functional yet I am still testing with coax into the tuner card, but will switch that to RCA for better quality signal when it goes 'live' (the box has to be wife-friendly before it can be used :) ).
Yes, serial port control of the cable box is an alternative to an IR blaster which is slow. Whether or not you can do this depends upon the model of your cable box and whether or not the cable company has the serial port active. I have a motorola dc2xxx series and depending upon the firmware, these may or may not work.
I plan on converting this box to a dedicated backend with another capture card to grab signal from another cable box and then have a frontend with multiple TV out cards to feed two TV's. That way I can either watch 2 separate shows on 2 different TV's or watch one show and record another.
MythTV also has a module for your phone so CID pops up, has built in VOIP capabilities, weather, news, DVD's, music, games, and some sort of Xbox interface that I have not yet played with.
Brad
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