Greetings,<div><br></div><div>I have some MythTV background (formerly ran 0.21 on a standalone CentOS box with a Hauppauge PVR-350 on Comcast SD) but have moved, married and am wanting to set up a new install for my new larger family. I am looking to do a standalone backend on a VM using an HD HR dual tuner with multiple front ends and one secondary backend for optical media importing. Would also be nice to have easy Windows access for my kids. I'm a sysadmin by day but do not have a lot of time to spend keeping disparate repositories in sync (was bitten last time by dependency conflicts between the CentOS and external repository (can't remember which it was at this time)) so I'm leaning toward a unified distro like mythbuntu or mythdora.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Status: Installed Mythbuntu backend server talking to the HDHR (no OTA at this time) as a VM and Mythbuntu on a dedicated PC as a frontend/secondary backend. Live TV functionality worked well.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Challenges (I did dig through the myriad FAQs and invest quite a few hours in trying to get this going): </div><div><ul><li>I'm having trouble with my channel selection. I've taken multiple whacks at getting the channel listing by scanning and then syncing up with the listing from SchedulesDirect but it seems to have gotten a tad more interesting with digital. On my first pass I found that the channels were out of sync with the SchedulesDirect so my program listing was useless and scheduled recordings pulled the wrong channel. Subsequent attempts took me down the path of guessing whether we are on cable, cable-hrc or cable-irc and scanning in all sorts of different channels, having to take Myth's suggestions and ending up with a mess.</li>
<li>Ripping the media simply returned to the menu seemingly without even trying to access the DVD drive (but that is secondary and I can get back to it later)</li></ul><div>Confession: I was swayed by a friend's tales of SageTV and burned down my installation to try it. only to learn that there is no eval license for Linux ( I DO want to try before I buy) and that the Linux server does not play DVDs (according to one of the SageTV forums) and I am not really open to running Sage on a Windows backend so I am back with hat in hand asking for some help.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Needs:</div><div><ul><li>pointer to an FAQ for getting my channels imported from Comcast Digtal "World of More" in Acworth, GA (a suburb of ATL, spot checks of the paper listing sent by Comcast to the SchedulesDirect listing seem to match up with the Atlanta line up</li>
<li>pointer to an FAQ for pulling in all of the available channels and none of the cruft using the HDHR</li><li>pointer to an FAQ for pulling the old recorded content off of the old MythTV and into the new backend, the hardware needs to go away</li>
</ul></div><div>Of course if any reader has an out right recipe for this combination that would be cool beyond words and appreciated even more than the fact that you read this far.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and blessings,</div>
<div>Chuck</div><div><br>-- <br>"As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another."<br>-Proverbs 27:17<br>
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