[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun

Rich West Rich.West at wesmo.com
Thu Apr 5 20:01:48 UTC 2007


Tom Lichti wrote:
> Rich West wrote:
>   
>> I'm at the point where I want to add HD capabilities to my SD setup. 
>> Two out of our three sets are HD capable (already 16:9).
>>   
>>     
> If the lone SD only frontend is a full Myth frontend, it will scale the 
> HD source to SD size, with the right setup.
>   
>> My BE is a fully populated MicroATX system (no more slots :( ), which
>> got me to thinking of the HDHomeRun as an option (the Hauppauge 1600
>> would be good IF it were supported under linux. :( ).
>>
>> After reading past posts on the list and looking at the device itself
>> (on the web page), is it as easy as it claims to be?  That old phrase of
>> "If it's too good to be true, it probably isn't" rings through my head
>> every time I come back to it.  But, from what I have read, a number of
>> people are using it.  What are people's experiences with the HDHomeRun
>> and does the antenna you choose have an impact (I'm sure it does, but by
>> how much)?  Is the HDHomeRun better/worse than getting an internal HD
>> tuner card?
>>   
>>     
> I think better, since as you said, no driver issues, really. All you 
> need is a relatively current version on MythTV. Current SVN works, as 
> does .20 fixes, along with SVN trunk rev 12618. Anything other than that 
> and you are playing with fire.
>   
>> Combined with MythTV, as I understand it, you plug an HD antenna in to
>> the HDHR, and you plug the HDHR's ethernet cable in to your switch. 
>> Then, on the MythTV side, you set it up to point to the IP of the HDHR
>> and you're good to go?
>>   
>>     
> Pretty much, yes, with the right version of Myth (see above). I have an 
> antenna on one tuner for OTA HD, and my cable line on the other for SD 
> QAM channels. The type of antenna depends mostly on how far you are from 
> the transmitters, and the transmitter power. I am pretty far away from 
> most of the stations (80+ miles) so I have a largish ChannelMaster 4228 
> antenna.
>   
>> The limitation would be the FE for display, then, right?  I've got a
>> shuttle with an AMD64 Sempron 3000+ and 512MB of RAM (the systems are
>> *virtually* diskless) which, from what I can gather, may or may not make
>> the cut for HD...
>>   
>>     
> Should be ok with those, definitely if you have nVidia cards and use XvMC.

Cool.  Thanks!  And, yes, I've got nVidia cards in all of the FE's.

-Rich


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