[mythtv-users] Recording SkyTV on MythTV box?

[Richard Smith]

Gary Dawes wrote:
>
>
> On 28/11/06, *Mike Dent* <mcdent at gmail.com <mailto:mcdent at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
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>     Hi,
>     I'd just like to confirm that somebody is actually doing this? Are
>     there any pitfalls or gotchas I should beware of :) ?
>     We have Sky in the UK and and present scart feeds our Tivo box.
>
>     I plan to replace the Tivo with Myth but would like to retain the
>     ability to record from Sky and have Myth change channels on the Sky
>     receiver etc.
>
>     Thanks!
>
>     Mike
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> used to with no major problems, I've now swapped to Telewest/ntl with 
> much the same setup. I just pull the video via scart into a tv-card 
> video-in. Ir control was controlled by a irda module plugged into the 
> ir headers on the motherboard, although when I switched I had to build 
> the simple transmitter circuit from the lirc site, and it only cost a 
> couple of quid for the parts from maplin, and it'd work for Sky as 
> well. If you've got money, and don't want the faffing about then look 
> at the redremote serial device
>
> I followed the instructions from the lirc site and recorded a 
> lirc.conf for my remote control, as my digibox didn't seem to like the 
> downloaded one. I also called channel.pl directly from the excternal 
> channel change field rather than using the wrapper bash script, which 
> just seemed to upset things.
>
> This is a good link for the remote control stuff 
> http://www.nexusuk.org/projects/mythtv/lirc/
>
> cheers
>
> gary
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I use it with no problems. Scart from the Sky box goes to the svideo 
input of a PVR350 card with audio as well.  I use it with Joseph 
Heenan's usb sky controller which works a treat.

Rick