[mythtv-users] Australian Foxtel Upgrade

[Nick Tan]

Hi again,

I've done the upgrade from Optus Analog to Optus (Foxtel) digital.  I'm 
running FC3 with 0.19 and a PVR-150MCE and a K-World DVB-T card.

I use a serial IR transmitter to control the cable box, as well as a 
serial IR receiver to control Myth.

This is what I had to do when changing from analog cable to digital:

The analog was coming in via the tuner on the PVR-150 card, but with the 
digital I'm using the composite input so first I had to change the input 
in mythtv-setup.

I had to use the lircd.conf file for the foxtel remote which was posted 
on the list a while ago (its in the archives) as I couldn't get irrecord 
to record the button presses on the remote.

I created a spreadsheet which listed all the channels, with the channel 
numbers and the xmltv ID's I use.  I updated the channel information for 
the existing channels (basically just put in the new channel numbers), 
and added the new channels.

Next, I updated my tv_grab_au_tuhs script (I use the listings from 
tvguide.org.au) and got listings for the new channels.

Once that was all done I could watch Live TV and record, but whenever I 
changed channels the audio would get scratchy.  If I used ivtvctl to set 
the audio input to input1, it would fix the problem.  So I modified my 
changechannel script to do that.

Now I just need to figure out a good way to handle the Foxtel Box Office 
stuff...

Hope this helps.

Nick

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> Given that the analog system has different channel numbers than digital 
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> Regards
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> Marty
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