[mythtv-users] HDHomerun Prime or Ceton InfiniTV ETH 6?

[Jim Oltman]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Greg Thompson <gthompson20 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Apr 15, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Jim Oltman <jim.oltman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Mike Carron <jmcarron at starstream.net>wrote:
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>> On 4/14/2014 1:33 AM, Joseph DeGraw wrote:
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>>  Hello,
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>> I run the 4 port pcie Ceton card with mythtv .27 and it works extremely
>> well. The driver is provided by ceton off their website. I have had no
>> problems at all with it. Might give that a try. I dont know about the
>> others because my experience is with the 4 port pcie card itself.
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>> Joseph
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>> I have the HDHomerun Prime, 6 tuners on 2 units are used by my MBE. The
>> only problem I have is when someone grabs one of the tuners with the smart
>> TV and the MBE decides to use that tuner. I have a 3rd HDHRP for use by
>> non-Myth devices but that requires the human running the smart TV to
>> remember which tuners to use.
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>> I know nothing of Comcast however, my cable company is Wave Broadband and
>> so far (knock on wood) they have been very good about marking channels as
>> copy freely. Only the acknowledged premium (HBO, etc) channels are marked
>> copy once.
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>> mike
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> So is there anyone running the Ceton InfiniTV ETH 6 device on 0.26?
>  Unfortunately, in my environment, the PCIe tuner won't be a viable option
> as MythBackend is a VM running in ESXi, and I don't want to take the chance
> that a PCIe tuner can't be passed to the VM correctly.  Joseph/Mike, thanks
> for your input!
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> Jim
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> Yes I am running the Ceton Eth 6 tuner with .27 fixes.  Works great ! No
> issues whatsoever. I'm an on Comcast.
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> Greg
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Greg,

Thanks for the info!  This is encouraging news.  Guess I'll have to
convince the wife now!

Jim
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