[mythtv-users] Control Cabel Box with USB?

Brian Walter blwalter at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 15:29:06 UTC 2007


Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/26/2007 11:08 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>   
>> On 4/26/07, Conrad Montlouis <conrad.montlouis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Does the Firewire rule apply to Satellite Providers?
>>>       
>> No but you can buy expensive haked boxes that provide firewire.
>>     
>
> Don't most of those provide firewire by reading from the sat box into a 
> Windows box which outputs firewire to the Myth box?  I.e. going from one 
> middleman (the STB) to 2 (the STB and a Windows box) for each capture 
> card in Myth.
>
> Mike
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Mike,

Depends on the solution, but, you send them a STB, they add the 
firewire, and it goes to either a linux box or an xp box, which then can 
be firewired to myth.

Brian


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