[mythtv-users] pchdtv 5500, verizon fios, and ota, oh my!

[Jerry Rubinow]

On 2/8/07, Andrew Kimpton <awk at awkward.org> wrote:
> Kurt Yoder wrote:
> > 1. The FIOS coaxial cable outputs MOCA instead of the QAM that cable
> > companies provide. I don't think I can get anything by connecting a
> > Verizon coax cable directly from the wall to the pchdtv card since it
> > is QAM-only (I tried it, and a scan of the channels returned
> > nothing). It would be really cool if I could find some way to
> > overcome this so I could pull HD directly off the Verizon coax cable
> > and avoid the 15$/month HD set top box fee. I don't mind only getting
> > the unencrypted channels, since this is what I'd get OTA anyway. I'm
> > assuming it would need some kind of MOCA to QAM converter. Does such
> > a beast exist?
> >
> >
> Here in the Boston area the FIOS TV Coax connection is QAM-256 (and MOCA
> I think for some aspects - the two seem to co-exist in some sense),
> although the vast majority of channels are encrypted the common OTA (and
> local community access channels) appear in the main to be unencrypted.
> With the hundreds of channels on FIOS did you perhaps overlook just 6-8
> unencrypted program streams ?
>
> Admittedly I'm using a HDHomeRun not a PCHDTV 5500 though

Here in the Philly area it's plain QAM-256 on the Verizon coax.  I was
able to detect 60 or so signals, although about 2/3 of them were
music-only channels (I think) that just confused Myth when I tried to
tune to them.  But all the SD and HD OTA channels were there in the
clear and I've had no problems tuning and recording them in Myth.
N.b: this using an AverTV HD A-180.

How sure are you that you have the 5500 configured correctly?

-Jerry