[mythtv-users] Watching compsite in as TV?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/13/2006 02:32 AM, Chris Ptacek wrote:
> I have dish network with a PVR receiver and RF remote.

(As an aside, your DISH receiver can also accept IR commands--unless 
it's the second tuner of a dual-tuner receiver--so you can use any old 
LIRC transmitter to control it.)

>   For my first pass I
> am trying to get my mythserver setup so that I can feed the dish receiver
> into the composite in of my PVR 500 and just watch that. I would use my RF
> remote to control the receiver.  This would allow me to watch the feed at
> any TV with a client, but only need one receiver. However I havn't been able
> to figure out how to configure the server (mythtvsetup). It seems to require
> channels be defined and when I do define them via datadirect it fails while
> trying to change to that channel.

Set your channel change script to /bin/true.

Mike