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">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HD-PVR</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>There is ambiguous language about how to effect channel changes. At one point, it talks about how to configure a channel change script "if you care about changing channels". Seems like any HD-PVR user would care about that, right? Then, near the bottom, under the section entitled <b>"</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Steps to Enable IR Transmitter<b>"</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; ">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">it states that even with IR up and running, I will still need a channel change script. Is this true? If so, what is the point of IR? To just power the STB up and down? That seems hardly worth the effort of configuring IR. Did I miss something here? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Anyway, if I need a separate channel change script, where can that be found, and if there are variants on that, where can I find the one most commonly used? Do these channel changing scripts operate over firewire? or over the USB cable? Seems like these important details are missing from the wiki, or maybe I just got up late this morning :) </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">I am happy to update the wiki based on whatever feedback I can get here...</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Larry</span></div>