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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/08/2016 09:06 AM, Greg Woods
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<div dir="ltr">Comcast sent me a letter yesterday indicating that
if I don't replace my set-top boxes by Oct. 31, I might start
losing channels. Worst case: this could spell doom for my MythTV
system. Of course, it is impossible to obtain the kind of
technical information I really need from Comcast. I did manage
to find an equipment comparison chart on the <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://xfinity.com/tradeup">xfinity.com/tradeup</a>
web site, and I can see that the only box on their list that
actually has a component output (needed, of course, for my
HD-PVR recorders) is the RNG150N. I found the user manual for
these, and they do have a firewire port, but I have no idea if
the mythchanger program will work with these boxes. Comcast also
talks about an "RF" remote control, so I have no idea whether
using an IR blaster is even an option.
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<div>Does anybody have one of these boxes in use under MythTV?
Anyone else seen one of these "Equipment Update" letters?</div>
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<div>--Greg</div>
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I have received a couple of letters titled "Equipment Update" from
Comcast. I have a cable card and the notices concern the switch over
to MPEG-4. Perhaps MPEG-4 is the reason they need to switch out your
cable box.<br>
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I used to have a RNG150 cable box from Comcast before I switched to
cable card. I used it for a few years for recording via firewire.
Channel changing could only be done by IR blaster, the various
utilities (mythchanger etc.) for changing channel via firewire did
not work. I used an Iguana IR blaster for that. Getting the channel
changing script right was a challenge, but eventually it worked
reliably. Firewire recording was rather unreliable, the box would
sometimes fail to be recognized by the computer.<br>
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If you go that route, I may still have the channel change script,
remote mappings and other things somewhere. Let me know if you need
them.<br>
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Peter<br>
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