<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Larry K <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lunchtimelarry@gmail.com">lunchtimelarry@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Since Comcast hosed pretty much all my unencrypted QAM (except the networks, of course), I just picked up an HD-PVR, another STB, and have been reading through all the materials I can find. <div><br></div><div>On this wiki -> <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HD-PVR" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HD-PVR</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br>Larry:<br></div></blockquote><div>A lot depends on what STB Comcast gave you. People on this list seem to have had good luck using firewire to change channels on STB's (as do I). If your STB has a firewire port AND it is enabled I'd suggest you look at 6200ch which AFAIK is included in the mythtv packages (<a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_External_Channel_Changer">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_External_Channel_Changer</a>) or try mythchanger <a href="%28https://wiki.ubuntu.com/majoridiot">(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/majoridiot</a>). Personally I use mythchanger because it produced better debug for me to understand what was going on when I was attempting to record over the firewire. I since gave up that goal and purchased an HDPVR, as you did. If you cannot get the firewire to work (BTW, if it has a firewire port but is not enabled, I'd try complaining to Comcast first) you'd have to go the way of an IR blaster. There has been a lot of discussion on this list on getting the HD-PVR blaster to work. You'll need to search the list. But firewire is the way to go if possible. Very reliable and easy. My entry for the script is:<br>
mythchanger -c and mythtv fills in the channel.<br><br>Good luck.<br><br>-- Ken E.<br></div></div><br>