[mythtv-users] no one on here uses dial up then?
My dream of setting up a MythTV box seems to have been shattered now. Unless of course someone else has successfully used dial up in their setup. Please let me know if you have successfully used dial up. My TiVo box is using it, but I know it is different. Thanks a lot for the help! Aaron ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] no one on here uses dial up then?
Aaron Aguilar wrote: My dream of setting up a MythTV box seems to have been shattered now. Unless of course someone else has successfully used dial up in their setup. Please let me know if you have successfully used dial up. My TiVo box is using it, but I know it is different. I have made two dial-up myth setups for other people (I have cable). For security reasons, they had to manually open the connection and run mythfilldatabase. But I don't see why you cannot make it dial in and run mythfilldatabase automatically. I guess this script should work after you put it in the cron(or a script similar to it): #!/bin/sh wvdial wait 30 mythfilldatabase kill pidof wwvdial ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] no one on here uses dial up then?
I don't see any reason why you couldn't use dial up. The only reason mythtv needs an internet connection is to download the program listings. This doesn't require a high speed connection as its only text data. You would have to do a little more work to get this going. Something like a cron job which dials up at a specified time and runs mythfilldatabase should do the trick. On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:47:24 -0500, Aaron Aguilar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dream of setting up a MythTV box seems to have been shattered now. Unless of course someone else has successfully used dial up in their setup. Please let me know if you have successfully used dial up. My TiVo box is using it, but I know it is different. Thanks a lot for the help! Aaron ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] no one on here uses dial up then?
The only downside to dialup is that the downloading and installation of myth packages, and linux packages will be slower, especially using jarods guide which is assuming for broadband, or just very long install times on dialup, but there are knoppmyth which is already a working installable version of linux with myth installed But once configured and working myth needs nothing more than something to fill its database and with direct data, thats so much easier and quick On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:00:57 -0500, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:47:24 -0500, Aaron Aguilar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dream of setting up a MythTV box seems to have been shattered now. What on earth gave you the idea that broadband would be required? There are a handful of things in Myth that use the internet but none of them require large amounts of bandwidth. And yes, I use dialup. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] no one on here uses dial up then?
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:41:25 -0500, Jack Trout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only downside to dialup is that the downloading and installation of myth packages, and linux packages will be slower, especially using jarods guide which is assuming for broadband Well I would set up the system using high speed at my buddies house. Then at my house use dial up to keep my program guide setup. On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:00:57 -0500, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What on earth gave you the idea that broadband would be required? A reply by someone on this mailing list telling me it would take huge amounts of bandwidth and hours of time to download the guides. Has anyone ran across a guide of someone using dial up, ie: scripts used etc. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] no one on here uses dial up then?
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:42:39 -0500, Aaron Aguilar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:41:25 -0500, Jack Trout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only downside to dialup is that the downloading and installation of myth packages, and linux packages will be slower, especially using jarods guide which is assuming for broadband Well I would set up the system using high speed at my buddies house. Then at my house use dial up to keep my program guide setup. On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:00:57 -0500, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What on earth gave you the idea that broadband would be required? A reply by someone on this mailing list telling me it would take huge amounts of bandwidth and hours of time to download the guides. Heh they were smoking crack or something. My entire DirecTV lineup only takes a few minutes under dialup. Has anyone ran across a guide of someone using dial up, ie: scripts used etc. There's nothing special or magical about it. Unless of course you're not going to have your machine connected to a LAN with some sort of gateway on it (even internet connection sharing works just fine). Then you'll just need to read a PPP howto for Linux. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
