[mythtv-users] HDHomerun Prime CCI Scanner

[Eric Sharkey]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
<gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Preston Crow
>>> Now if there were such a script, and it would auto-upload the results to
>>> Schedules Direct, then people with QAM tuners in the same area would have a
>>> much easier time setting up their systems.  This would also be nice for
>>> people with both an older HD Homerun and a new Prime.
>>
>> I believe there was already a whole thread about that topic, including
>> a script that does exactly that.
>
> Schedules Direct has issued a number of versions of such scripts,
> and they seem to work reasonably.  However, the anecdotal
> evidence seems to suggest that (only a) few people in (only a)
> few areas are actually running it (regularly).

The scripts haven't really been productized yet.  I tried it, it
worked, I uploaded my results, and I haven't had a chance to try it
again lately.

The part of the script that's lacking is that it's not trivial to
automate having it run regularly in the background.  It requires
having both a cable card and a clear qam tuner available (not in use
or about to be in use by mythtv).  The scripts need an option to
negotiate access to the tuners with the mythtv backend to make running
this from cron safe.  Or, even better, to have the mythtv-backend
itself do this.  If this was done, there would be much higher
participation rates.

Eric