[mythtv-users] setting up a AirTV Anywhere tuner with MythTV

[Greg Oliver]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 10:18 AM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 11:06 AM Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 9:56 AM glen <glenb at glenb.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2022-06-24 at 09:03 -0500, Greg Oliver wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 5:56 AM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> When I signed up for Sling TV streaming service to complement my OTA
>>> MythTV system I had the opportunity to get a package deal that gave me a
>>> AirTV Anywhere OTA tuner/DVR that would integrate with the Sling TV app so
>>> you could have the OTA channels alongside the streaming channels.
>>>
>>> The integrated OTA DVR part of this isn't working out very well. So I
>>> thought about maybe seeing if I could somehow hack the thing to work with
>>> Mythtv as a Quad Tuner only. At a minimum I could remove the 1TB SSD and
>>> use it elsewhere, but maybe find an API interface for it?
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on how to proceed?
>>>
>>>
>>> I would assume if you programmed a channel changing script to talk to it
>>> (it appears to run android), you could use the MythTV streaming recorder to
>>> record them as tuners.  I do not have one to play with, but it seems there
>>> is a lot of info out there to use them without Sling.  There must be an API
>>> that Sling uses to talk to them and figuring it out with packet captures
>>> should be fairly simple I would guess (guess the main word here!).
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>>>
>>> i don't believe it would be simple to use sling's api and have myth to
>>> record a stream in the absence of getting something to override the hdcp
>>> and just record from the android box. i believe that these services use
>>> some form of a token that must be changed all the time to pass the stream
>>> and also a degree of redirection. i don't think a myth tuner as it stands
>>> could record from sling in the absence of a hdmi recording device and
>>> something to strip hdcp which is not authorized typically
>>>
>>
>> There should be no HDCP on OTA, and afaict, theat device is not even
>> hdmi, but rather just communicates over the network.  I may be completely
>> wrong though :)
>>
>
> The AirTV Anywhere is a stand-alone box that plugs into the ethernet or
> wifi and connects to the antenna.  You view streaming channels or OTA via
> the Sling app on either FireTV, Shield TV or other client.  When you first
> plug and turn on the AirTV, you can use the Sling app on Firetv to set up
> the DVR.  Once you scan channels you just see the OTA in the Sling guide.
> If you select to record on an OTA channel it uses the 1TB internal drive.
> If you select to record on a streaming channel it records it on the Cloud
> DVR.
>
> Jim A
>

That is how it sounded to me as well, so there would be no HDCP encryption
issues.  If you did a packet capture on the port it is connected to, you
should be able to see the raw commands Sling sends it and replicate them in
a channel changer script for the streaming recorder device in MythTV.
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