MythTV hardware list

[Evan Leibovitch]

I am working right now with a HDHomerun
tuner<http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun/hdhomerun-ca-canada/>connected
to my wired home network at one end, and an attic-mounted
antenna <http://www.channelmaster.com/ULTRAtenna_CM_4221HD_s/44.htm> at the
other. The HDHR has explicit support for MythTV and from XBMC, but I'm
trying to make it work with a lighter-weight Linux back-end called
TVheadend instead of Myth.

My ultimate goal, is to give multiple TVs in the house access to the
dual-tuner HDHR, in some cases using RaspBMC.

While waiting for this to work, I take advantage of HDHR's native support
for Windows Media Center -- while use and watching is plug-and-play, the
online schedule downloads are not.  :-P

Here are the digital channels I currently get over the air.

RELIABLE:

   - CFTO (CTV)
   - CBLT (CBC)
   - CIII (Global)
   - CBLFT (Radio Canada)
   - CITY
   - CFMT (OMNI1)
   - CJMT (OMNI2)
   - CKCS (Crossroads)
   - CICA (TVOntario)
   - WIVB (CBS)
   - WNLO (theCW)

UNRELIABLE BUT OCCASIONALLY USABLE

   - WNED (PBS)
   - WGRZ (NBC)
   - WUTV (Fox)

There's also a Buffalo Christian channel whose name I can't recall that
shows up from time to time.

All signals are HD and really sharp (I'm told that Rogers signals are
compressed and inferior to uncompressed OTA)

- Evan




On 9 September 2013 09:53, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 09:24:22PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > By bad, I mean: require MythTV to be downstream of a set-top box and
> > even then Myth has trouble changing channels.
>
> I use a rogers 4250HD cable box with a an HD-PVR USB encoder connected
> via component video, with a firewire link to the 4250HD for channel
> changing and power control.  This works quite well and rarely has issues.
> Not cheap given you are looking at close to $500 in hardware per input
> for recording.  On the other hand you get to record full HD from the
> digital signal (although using an analog connection for the video.  Audio
> can be either analog stereo, or spdif digital (including suround sound)).
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
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Evan Leibovitch
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