[mythtv-users] SN41G2 - notsogood for Myth

Jon Waite jon at jonwaite.com
Thu Jan 29 08:20:21 EST 2004


As far as I know there are NO cards available that will decode the encrypted
channels on Sky Digital in New Zealand (I'd *love* to be proved wrong on
this though).

I can't find out anything about the Motorola Sky Digital decoder, I've no
idea how to 'sniff' the serial port and even establish if it's active, let
alone try and write code to change channels on it. May have a play with this
over the weekend and see if I can get any joy.

I also have no idea (and can't find any documentation) on the remote control
used for it and how I'd setup/configure a lirc homebuilt infrared
transmitter to change the channels either :(

Ideally I'd like to get my backend with a PVR350 (and later a PVR250 as
well) hooked up to both my Sky Digital decoders and able to display on any
networked PC in the house (currently 5 of em - don't ask). But this is
looking a long way off at present :(

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of David Zanetti
> Sent: Thursday, 29 January 2004 2:41 p.m.
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] SN41G2 - notsogood for Myth
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> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Jon Waite wrote:
> 
> > Do what I did - contact Hauppauge US and they'll order you 
> a PVR-350 
> > direct from Singapore (with the correct PAL-B/G tuner for New 
> > Zealand). Total cost was NZ$350(ish) including about $50 for UPS 
> > delivery. Mine arrived within a week.
> 
> Hmm, that's almost a tollerable price. :) Thanks for mentioning it.
> 
> > Now I've just got to figure out where the hell I can find out 
> > information on the serial port on my Motorola DHT320 Sky Digital 
> > decoder box, get a serial link working and I'll be set...
> 
> Rumour has it (from other people with the Sky set top box), 
> it's diag only, no channel changing. However, if you're using 
> Sky Digital, it's DVB-S, so maybe a DVB-S card with a CA 
> module would suffice? (And, you get
> MPEG-2 without any re-encoding :) )
> 
> > Also I saw in another of your posts a reference to 
> > http://www.sky.co.nz/data
> > - I *wish* I'd found that about 2 weeks ago :(
> 
> You might find this useful as well then:
> 
>  http://hairy.geek.nz/patch/sky-to-xmltv.xsl
> 
> It's an XSLT stylesheet to convert Sky's listings to XMLTV 
> format. Feed it to your favourite XSLT handler (eg, about 5 
> lnes of perl), and you're set.
> I'm working on some shell scripts to fetch it + the TVNZ 
> listings XML feed (really ugly, and looks unofficial, but 
> it's got to be nicer than parsing the HTML from the normal 
> nzoom pages..)
> 
> I'm 99% sure the XMLTV output is correct for both, but I had 
> real problems with tv_sort expecting them to have tags in a 
> particullar order (!).
> 
> - -- 
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