[mythtv-users] Home Run doesn't operate with Myth [Solved]

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Stephen,

Friday, September 2, 2016, 11:41:48 AM, you wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 07:39:59 +0100, you wrote:

>>Curiously I found that Myth did not work with the HD HR alone, it 
>>appears not to collect program information from the HD HR and without 
>>that both live and recorded TV fail.  Adding a USB tuner solved that.

> Yes, apparently the HDHRs do not have any way of being used to collect
> EPG data.  It is a pretty big oversight, I think.  Of course, if you
> can get an external EPG source, such as SchedulesDirect, it is not a
> problem.  But I do think that any tuner should have a way of providing
> the full capabilities of the tuner hardware to the user.  The new
SAT>>IP network protocol does that I think, so I hope MythTV will
> eventually be implementing SAT>IP.  But when the HDHRs were designed,
SAT>>IP did not exist, so they created their own protocol to talk to
> the tuners, and they missed some things.
> _______________________________________________

I can with my European 4DC, although I rarely use it. I guess it is a
limitation on the cablecard implemented in the American models.


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