Randy Carpenter wrote:
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?
I use DirecTV and it has never been an issue, either they do not update the box or they have never turned it off on me. I would recommend purchasing your open cable box, I think this is legal again now.
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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