[mythtv-users] Motorola DCX3200-M

[Mike Chinander]

MythTV could use the Firewire (IEEE-1394) connection on some older Motorola
set top boxes, not sure about the DCX3200-M though. May depend on Shaw's
firmware on the box too. https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/FireWire

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Jerome Yuzyk <jerome at supernet.ab.ca> wrote:

> Now that I'm up to speed with new hardware and upgrade OS and MythTV I'm
> looking at adding new stuff: digital SD/HD.
>
> I already have a PVR-500 giving me plenty of good analog SD service from a
> channel line-up that's 90% of my historical viewing. I have another one
> sitting in my old machine as a spare or to add to the new box.
>
> I have a Motorola DCT-700 still sitting in the box from my cable provider
> (Shaw in Canada) and that seems a logical first addition. It only does
> composite out so I figure I can pick up a PVR-150 to capture from the DCT
> exclusively and work out the channel-change and recording priorities for
> the handful of channels worth getting from digital. Does that sound right?
>
> However, Shaw is also offering a "HD Box" (their words) that, after a
> couple calls to verify, I won't have to add some new plan and that the box
> could replace the DCT-700 - I'd get the digital SD I'd get with the DCT,
> and "HD Basic". It's a Motorola DCX3200-M single-tuner HD box for $138 that
> will get a dozen or so HD channels from the plan that I'm paying for
> already.
>
> There's not a lot of current info from Google about these boxes and Myth.
> Apparently it's workable, at least a couple years ago. Anyone using this
> box?  Do I need a capture card for it? Can be used in Fedora 22?
> IR-blaster-able?
>
> https://community.shaw.ca/docs/DOC-1281
>
>
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