[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun

[R. G. Newbury]

Willy Boyd wrote:
> On 4/5/07, ryan patterson <ryan.goat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The HDhomerun is very easy to set up and use.  I don't know why Willy Boyd
>> says you have to put in xmltvid's.  I never had to do that.  I can't compare
>> the HDhomerun's tuner against any other HD tuners.  I hooked it up and it
>> gets all my local HD channels.  That is all I know.
> 
> Willy Boyd said you have to put in xmltvid's because Willy Boyd had
> to.  Sure, it picked up the info on my local channels, but I also
> about aboue 30 other channels over QAM (I consider this a good thing
> btw).  For those, I most definitely had to put in xmltvid, otherwise
> the channel name was something like "74#11" and there was no guide
> data.  I put in the proper xmltvid's (a process well documented if you
> search around), and bam, I got guide data, channel icon, and etc for
> channels like Food Network, VH1, etc.

Willy Boyd had to put in xmltvid's because Willy Boyd was receiving a 
cable signal and the cableco did not include the callsign information. 
Ryan had an easy time, because he was picking up OTA HD, and that 
carries the callsign. And OTA is ALWAYS broadcast on the same frequency 
that the FCC says it is to be broadcast on, while cable channels are 
broadcast on any *frequency* the cable likes, but are listed on zap2it 
as being on some other virtual channel number *which is not a frequency*.

So neither is *wrong*, just describing different things.

And yes the HDHR is quite easy to set up, and quite easy to use, apart 
from that particular problem.
I got mine up and running within a few minutes on my laptop, using the 
dtv_multiplex and channel tables for the HD300 car in my real mythbox. 
And it was only much later, in bed that I realized that I had been 
watching LiveTV from the HDHR, over a wireless link from the router!!!! 
The link was so good that I forgot it was not wired!

Getting the thing working with VLC was *much* harder actually.

Geoff