[GTALUG] best choices for tiny mlinux media centre in 2016?

[Kevin Cozens]

On 15-12-29 03:47 PM, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> Done any of the media centres come with logic for driving an external
> digital box?  I use Rogers, and they're slowly moving all the free channels
> onto encrypted digital., so despite them being "free", they're only
> available via the Rogers digital box.

Rogers finished dropping all their analog channels some time ago. The only 
way to get channels is to use one of their decoder boxes. I found the free 
decoder box unreliable so I disconnected it. As I could no longer tune any 
channels I have let my subscription to schedules direct (TV guide listings 
service) lapse.

I still have MythTV installed to play DVD's. You can tell MythTV the name of 
an external program to use to change channels. There is a device called an 
IR Blaster (IIRC) that could be used to send IR codes to a remote device 
(e.g. cable tuner) to handle channel changes. I never tried it. Since I 
disconnect the free cable tuner box from Rogers I no longer have a need to 
get one to see if it would have worked.

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