[mythtv-users] Comcast CableCard Info

Don Lewis dl-mythtv at catspoiler.org
Wed Jul 27 17:10:47 UTC 2011


On 27 Jul, Patrick Oglesby wrote:
> I went to my local office yesterday to swap my old STB for a M-Card.
> Luckily, the lady behind the desk just read up on some training
> material that morning and knew what I was talking about.  She didn't
> have the self-install "kit", but just gave me a card in a plastic
> case, no prior provisioning or staging that she was aware of.
> 
> I put the card into my Ceton and booted up.  The CableCard allowed the
> channel map to be loaded very quickly, but of course the card was not
> able to tune anything.  The diagnostic web page simply gave me the
> (888)-COM-CAST number to call to activate.  After getting to an actual
> person, I told them I wanted to activate my CableCard for a ONE-WAY
> device.  Apparently, if you don't mention this, they might send a
> different signal for something like a TiVo, which is a two-way device.
>  I had to read off my CableCard ID, Host ID, and Data numbers.
> Shortly after that, I had a working stream through MPlayer, and I
> could just enter a channel number on the web page to change the
> channel.

The "kit" that I got from Comcast consisted of the card in a plastic
case, just like you got, along with two, largely similar, photocopied
pages of instructions, one for TiVo and one for other (TV) devices.  The
instructions basically told how to plug in the card and had blank spaces
where you can write down the three pieces of data that you need to phone
in to Comcast.

Still waiting for my Prime ...



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