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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 04:12:57PM -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> 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.

Well I have one rogers 4250 using firewire to tune and another 4642 using
an ir blaster (since rogers has totally fucked up firewire on the 4642.
It responds to all commands correctly, and does nothing it is told.
You can tell it to turn on, then ask if it is on and it will say yes,
then tell it to turn off and ask it the state and it will report off,
and it has no affect on the actual state of the box.  Very weird and no
other cable company has this problem with that model).

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Len Sorensen