<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jim Morton <Jim@Morton.hrcoxmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, July 15, 2010 2:55:27 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [mythtv-users] Equipment needed for DishTv to Myth<br></font><br>
Raymond Wagner wrote:<br>> On 7/14/2010 07:35, Jim Morton wrote:<br>>> In other words - If I have 3 STBs all in different rooms from the backend what are the options for connecting STB -> PVR and PVR -> Myth without running 25 feet USB and IR transmitter cables?<br>> <br>> MythTV expects to have dedicated access to the hardware it wants to use. If you are using the STB manually, and MythTV tries to record from it, you may run into problems. Is there any reason you can't move all your STBs into one room with the existing backend?<br>No reason that I can think of. That's probably the way to go, it's just not something I had considered. I can't remember the last time anyone here watched live tv so I don't think we'll be using the STBs manually. Thanks for the suggestion!<br><br>-- Jim Morton <br>_______________________________________________<br><br><br>You could still watch live tv with a consolidated backend still work if
each frontend has a lirc compatible device (and the backend had lirc compatible blasters)<br>Right? (or are you referring to watching live directly through the STB)<br></div></div>
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