[mythtv-users] MythTV and a DirecTV HD reciever

[Daniel Walton]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Disconnect wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Daniel Walton did have cause to say:
>
> > That would be cool if you could add a HD-Tivo as a "tuner" for myth.  Just how
> > hacked are the old hd-tivos?
>
> Every bit as hacked as the non-HD tivos (dunno about series-3 so don't ask
> :) ..) which means that its possible to do just about anything
> programatically. Its just a question of how much of a PITA it will be.  What
> I had running (briefly, and it broke) was just a list-and-stream setup,
> mostly independent of myth. (What I have now is even more so - if I want to
> see whats on the s2 directivo, I hit 'watch tivo' and a tv
> capture/deinterlace app runs.)
>
> In theory, with enough work, you could get it running as a tuner and storage
> buffer.  In practice, I'd be happy with a way to integrate the
> streaming/playing with the main myth recordings list.. (and the commercial
> flagging, etcetc)

Someone recently added support for the HDHomeRun which is a box with two tuners
that sits on your network.  It makes me wonder how feasible it would be to make
a hd-tivo appear as a HDHomeRun device to the myth backend.

I don't own a HDHomeRun and I don't have DirectTV so I'm mainly just babbling
here because this seems like a possible way to record encrypted HD in mythtv.

Daniel