[mythtv-users] DirecTV HTTP Server

[Steve Harrington]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:18 PM, blake <dsblakewatson at gmail.com> wrote:
> So...how do you get the IP address of your DTV box? Do you plug it into your
> LAN?
>
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Dave Badia <dbadia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Nice discovery.  So far my testing has gone very well with IP control
>> and your script (I did add some exit codes to make it easier to call
>> from other scripts).
>> Hopefully IP will be more stable than using the serial port which has
>> always required periodic reboots of the DTV boxes for me.  This looks
>> very promising so far, I'm going to switch one of backends to use IP
>> control and fallback to serial only if it fails.
>> I typically shy away from any mythtv mods in the fall as it's our most
>> critical time of year (TV premieres and football) but I think I have
>> to make an exception in this case.
>>
>> Dave
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Yes.  I plugged mine in and checked my router for the IP address of
the receiver.  Then I made sure that the IP address was always the
same by using the "DHCP Reservation" functionality of the router.  I
believe it is also possible to assign the receiver a static IP as
well.