[mythtv-users] How do you control a DirecTV device

[Peter Bennett]

On 11/19/25 19:04, James B Huber via mythtv-users wrote:
> Forgive me for top posting. > > I have 3 capture cards: card 1 - FREEBOX 
http://199.33.251.52/IPTV/ > FBE200-1.m3u (DTV-1) card 2 - FREEBOX 
http://199.33.251.52/IPTV/ > FBE200-2.m3u 
<http://199.33.251.52/IPTV/FBE200-1.m3u> (DTV-2) card 3 > - HDHOMERUN 
1092523D (OTA) > > There are 2 video sources (no grabbers defined to 
myth) SD-DirecTV (/ > bin/true) OTA (/bin/true) > > Both of the FREEBOX 
(IPTV) cards point to the SD-DIrecTV source and > the HDHR to the OTA 
source There are 2 system events defined: > Recording Pending: 
/MythTV/XmlTV/bin/mythtv_recording_pending.sh > %CARDID% %SECS% %CHANID% 
 > > and Recording Started: 
/MythTV/XmlTV/bin/mythtv_recording_started.sh > %CARDID% %CHANID% 
%STARTTIME% > > Not sure how to get you the files, I'm trying to attach 
the tar here > it's only like 9k. > > Running on Linux Mint 21.3 MythTV 
 > 34.0+fixes.202511161009.0d2d5790f4~ubuntu22.04.1 and upgraded xmltv > 
to 1.4.0 from GIT. > > and installed this "python-is-python3", so 
python3 is the default > and is kept updated. > > BTW, myth records and 
works fine (all of it) with HDHR, and it > RECORDS from the IPTV cards, 
but isn't getting the channel changed > (unless I manually do it), it 
sure looks like it call and runs the > scripts but just doesn't work... 
 > > > Jim --

I am confused about this. How are you connecting the C71KW-400 to MythTV?

As far as I know the C71KW-400 is an android TV device and must be 
connected to MythTV using a HDMI capture card. I have not used FREEBOX 
but I believe FREEBOX is only used for when MythTV gets free content 
directly from the internet without any  C71KW-400 or similar device 
needed. Surely FREEBOX cannot be used with DirecTV?

In order to connect an android device to MythTV you need an HDMI capture 
device. You need to define it in MythTV as an external recorder and 
supply appropriate capture scripts. see 
https://github.com/bennettpeter/MythTV-V4L2Capture.

Peter

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