[mythtv-users] Nvidia ION unreliable HDHR Prime at gigabit speeds

Gary Buhrmaster gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com
Sun Feb 28 01:30:33 UTC 2016


On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 1:02 AM, Will Dormann <wdormann at gmail.com> wrote:
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> How do most people control their cable boxes then?   The blind nature of
> an IR blaster seems a bit too unreliable to me.

It has been some time since i used IR blasters, but I
actually found them reasonable reliable if you used
the "IR input" port and an appropriate advanced
channel changer script (note that I had to write my
own channel changer script to improve upon
the existing solutions, which I contributed to the
wiki, and have made available my opto-isolator
back-to-back circuit for "IR Input"), which avoids most
of the "random" IR problem.

> Or are cable boxes a mostly dead concept as well?

Well, that too, depending on who you listen to.  But while
you can (in the US) still request and receive a STB with a
firewire port (which is typically an older device), the writing
is on the wall.  I actually expect that there will be a MSO
that eventually requests a variance for the firewire requirement,
and I would not be surprised if the FCC granted it.  However,
as the current game is regarding who controls the interface
(the MSO or your CE device) that request is probably going
to stay back-burned until later.

> (Yes, I have a HD-PVR for the channels that the HDHR won't record).

It is not the HDHR that will not record, your application
cannot support the protections required by your content
provider :-( [Point at the content provider, or point at the
application, but do not blame the HDHR]


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