On 6/2/06, Steve Smith <foodog@uswest.net> wrote:
As my vacation draws to a close I thought it'd be "fun" to put together
a MythTV box.
I had a suitable box, bought a Hauppauge WinTV card w/ IRblaster and
remote and set to it. Since Windows is what's supported by the Hauppauge
software I thought I'd get it going under "that" OS then take the
settings info over to MythTV. Hahahahaha! Not.
Four days into the struggle, I'm pretty sure that the "Motorola RG2200C"
set top box that Qwest provides is extra-terrestrial technology and, as
such, completely unsupported (except "kinda" by Tivo, since you have to
pay monthly for that :-(
Anybody had any luck at all with MythTV and Qwest Choice TV/VDSL? If
you've got it working under Windows I'd appreciate hearing about that as
well.
Thanks!
Steve
Isn't the Qwest set-top actually a Direct-TV setup? And as such is it not a digital sytem that eiyther puts an analog TV signal out to a single channel (
e.g. channel 4) or to an A/V connection? Because the Hauppauge unit is, I believe, an analog TV tuner so tuning it to any station other than (e.g.) 4 would be useless. In fact, since they make so much of their being all digital I would be surprised if they had you set up to use the analog single station method at all. They probably use only the A/V outputs form the set top box and those would be useless unless your MythTV setup had a way to tune the set top box and that would not involve the Haupauge unit at all.
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