[mythtvnz] LIRC and mySKY / Pace TDS850NNZ

[Wade Maxfield]

> On 28/09/2017, at 21:13, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> 
> The new decoders are Kaon boxes and the standard MySky boxes seem to
> now just be the same hardware but with your card programmed to tell
> the box to be able to record.  The new decoders seem to be programmed
> to use the same remotes as old MySky boxes.  I am not sure what a
> MySky HDi uses though.

It doesn't work with the spare old Sky remote I have, so I know it’s not the RC-30.


>  I seem to remember someone was reporting
> success with a new decoder using some MySky tables they found
> somewhere.  So if you can find that post, those tables might work for
> you too.
> 

I’ve found mention of a data sheet for an IR repeater here:

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=106&topicid=199099

but the PDF isn’t available anymore, and it’s not in the Wayback Machine.



> But I really think you should be changing completely how you record
> from Sky.  The new boxes seem to only have a composite video output
> that you can record from, which gives terrible quality.

This Pace TDS850N has HDMI, Component, and SCART. I’ve currently got a SCART to Component running to a Hauppage HD PVR. The DSR2000 has SCART so I’ve just plugged in this new decoder in it’s place, we haven’t got the HD Ticket from Sky, so it’s adequate for the moment.


>  And using an
> IR blaster to change channels is always problematic - it does just
> fail sometimes for no particular reason.  If, however, you get a card
> reader and put your Sky card in that, then use Oscam to talk to the
> card, you can set up MythTV to record digitally as many channels as
> you like via DVB-S2 tuners.  I am currently set up to record as many
> as 5 channels at once, and 10 channels when the recordings overlap on
> the same channel (I have a TBS6909 8 tuner DVB-S2 card).  I have
> minisatip running my DVB-S2 tuners and talking to Oscam to do the
> decoding, then I have my Sky channels defined in MythTV as IPTV
> channels using SAT>IP (RTSP) protocol, recording from minisatip.  It
> is much more reliable than I ever achieved using my old decoder and IR
> blaster - just as good as my DVB-T recordings.  And the picture
> quality is so much better than I got with S-Video and my PVR-500 card.

That should be the way to go. I do actually have a Phoenix/Smartmouse Card Reader but I’ve never tried it.  Is it likely to be an appropriate reader?
The new decoder has the 2 tone blue card from https://skytv.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/831/~/how-do-i-find-my-smart-card-number%3F

What distro are you using currently?  Was there anything extra you had to do to get the TBS6909 supported? (like you did with the TBS 9522) 


 - Wade