> >>1. Is there a way for MythTV to detect if the cable box power is on, and > >>turn it on if necessary? Simply leaving the cable box on all the time is > >>not necessarily an option, as sometimes the cable company uploads firmware > >>upgrades, and that causes the box to reboot, and sometimes shutdown. > >> > >> > It can't necessarily detect if the cable box is on. Does your cable box > have descrete codes for turning on and off or just a toggle code. If > descrete, you could just send the power on command as part of your > channel changing script.
No discrete code is available. If there is no way to tell what the state of power is, then I might be out of luck, and not able to even use MythTV. I will be stuck with the crappy cable DVR (yuck). How do others deal with this issue with cable boxes and satellite receivers? > >>2. I want dual tuners, but don't want to hassle with 2 boxes. If I connect > >>a digital box with an IR blaster (giving me channels 2-78 analog, and > >>100-300+ digital), and I have a second tuner card with just analog cable > >>(2-78) coming in, can MythTV be configured to handle this? Recording > >>digital channels would need to default to the first tuner, but the first > >>tuner would also need to be able to record analog stations, in the event > >>that 2 analog stations needed to be recorded at the same time. I > >>understand that I cannot have dual tuners on digital stations. This is ok, > >>as I record very little from the digital stations. > Yes, this can be done. One caveat, if you are using DataDirect you will > probably need to create two lineups. One for the analog channels and > one for the digital channels. You may need to use different zipcodes > (just use the next closest zip code to you) in order to create two cable > lineups. There are 2 separate lineups for my cable company for digital, and non-digital, so that should not be an issue. Is MythTV smart enough to handle the 2 different lineups? For example, if it needs to record an analog station, and a digital station, will it know to use the analog-only tuner for the analog station and the digital for the digital station? There are many scenarios I can think of that could seriously confuse the software, since there are different channels on each tuner. -Randy
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