Great, Nick! Thanks a lot.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick</b> <<a href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 08/09/06, jim scott <<a href="mailto:jimdscott@gmail.com">jimdscott@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Thanks for the reply, Chuck.<br>><br>> I've got a dual LNB dish and 2 DirecTV boxes. I'm assuming I would have to
<br>> configure MythTV to control each of my 2 DirecTV set top boxes if I want to<br>> be able to record one channel why watching another. I just don't know if<br>> that's even possible.<br><br>Yes it is - as long as you have a way of controlling the two boxes
<br>independently, such as with 2 IR blasters, or 2 serial connections.<br>Some boxes allow you to change the IR codeset that they use, so that<br>you can use a single IR blaster with a different LIRC config for each<br>box. Other boxes do not allow this and so you must use 2 separate
<br>blasters.<br><br>A typical setup would require:<br><br>i) add your capture card(s) in mythtv-setup<br>ii) create a video source that contains the channels available from<br>DirecTV, ensuring that the frequency (freqid) field contains the
<br>channel numbers for your DirecTV channels (this is the value that the<br>IR blaster script uses to change channels on the set top box)<br>iii) in Input Connections, attach the DirecTV source to the two<br>baseband (S-Video/composite) inputs on your capture card(s) you will
<br>use for recording. Attach a channel change script to each of these<br>inputs (each script must control one of the IR blasters separately<br>from the other). Also ensure the starting channel is valid.<br>iv) if the DirecTV boxes are in close proximity, you may need to
<br>shield the IR blasters so that there are no stray IR signals that<br>could affect the other box<br>v) grab your program listings and then fire up the backend<br><br>Nick<br><br>--<br>MythTV Official wiki:<br><a href="http://mythtv.org/wiki/">
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