[mythtv-users] Time Warner Cable

Ryan Nowakowski tubaman at fattuba.com
Tue Apr 4 03:28:41 UTC 2006


I've got TW Digital and I'm using my Myth box with just the analog
(<125) channels.  I just plugged my cable directly from the wall into
my PVR-350 card.

- Ryan

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:24:39AM -0500, GreatOak wrote:
> Ok, I am in the same boat and procrastinating/family has slowed my progress.
> I have Digital Cable with TWC as well. I don't care to record the >125
> channels, they are mostly dupes of the <125 channels.
> 
> So, my question is... Do I have to do the IR Blaster/Serial cable thing? OR
> can I just hook a up directly to the cable and get the lower 125 channels in
> analog or is it just completely gone with digital cable? If the lower 125
> channel are not there in analog I guess I have to use the "change the
> channels through the cable box" thing whether by IR Blaster or serial cable
> (as mentioned in the previous message). If that is the case... (use IR
> Blaster), why bother with a tuner card? Why not just use a video in video
> out setup? I mean the digital box I have has video and audio out, so a tuner
> is not necessary ... right?
> 
> Thank you,
> G
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/30/06, Kichigai Mentat <kichigai at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
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> > On Mar 30, 2006, at 09.48, Yeraze.27524549 at bloglines.com wrote:
> >
> > > I'm currently working on specs for a future MythTV build, and I'm
> > > relatively
> > > new to the whole thing. I have time warner's digital cable, and
> > > wanted to
> > > know if anyone here has any experience with it?
> > >
> > > 1) Is there a PCI card
> > > (Like the PVR250) that I can use to bypass my set-top box?  I don't
> > > particularly
> > > care about VOD or any of that junk, just want to keep the higher
> > > digital channels.
> >
> > No way, no how. At the moment, there is no digital cable tuner that
> > I'm aware of, and most of the digital cable channels you are talking
> > about are encrypted, so that only the cable box can decode it.
> > Hopefully, in the future, when CableCARD becomes a standard, this
> > should be fixed. But for now, you're out of luck. (I'm kinda in the
> > same boat myself, with ComCast in MN)
> >
> > >
> > > 2) Is there any way to connect to the set-top box "reliably"?  I
> > > have a
> > > "PACE 510 TWC", which seems to be this model: http://
> > > www.pacemicro.com/corporate/products/prodinfo.asp?PID=DC510
> > > , and it has a Serial Port & A USB port on the back.  I can't find
> > > any information
> > > on the net about them, other than the Serial port is for diagnostics.
> >
> > Uhh, you'd need to tell us what your actual cable box model is. Most
> > cable companies tend to have a box with a serial port that can be
> > used to change the channels, but some companies refuse to do it
> > (because they figure you can just use an IR blaster) or don't know
> > how (there's a thread in here where a guy talks about how the techs
> > were poorly trained, and no one knew how. Fortunately, he managed to
> > find what tech needed on the internet)
> >
> > >
> > > 3)
> > > How reliable is the IR-Relay stuff?  I had thought about using an
> > > IRBlaster
> > > (http://www.irblaster.info/) to do it, but it seems this unit uses
> > > a non-standard
> > > protocol and may require something different (based on this Tivo
> > > forum post:
> > > http://archive.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/history/topic/103589-1.html)
> >
> > It's pretty reliable, unless you plan on bombarding your cable box
> > with additional infrared light. In all fairness, it's not the blaster
> > that handles the protocol, it's the software. All that blaster is is
> > basically an IR light bulb, and all your computer needs to do is turn
> > it on and off. MythTV relies on LIRC, and so far, I've never heard
> > anyone complain about it. TiVo ?$B!b MythTV.
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