<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Kenneth Dixon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ken.dixon@clear.net.nz">ken.dixon@clear.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
My brother was interested in setting up a MythTV box, he has<br>
Sky but is not keen on IR Blasting.</blockquote><div><br>Any particular reason why not? I think it's going to be much easier to get working. I've been running a blaster on a Sky Digital box for several years now and it's 100% reliable (so long as someone doesn't unplug it or pull it off the box).<br>
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After some investigation, it looks like it might be possible<br>
to skip the middleman (Sky decoder box) and use a smart card<br>
reader plugged directly into the MythTV box to do the<br>
decoding. There are a couple of NZ forums doing it for<br>
Windows</blockquote><div><br>Can you post some links? I'd be interested in seeing how it's working...<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
and I found an Ausie site with a howto for Linux:<br>
<a href="http://omcentre.com.au/Getting-Pay-TV-to-Work-With-MythTV.102.0.html" target="_blank">http://omcentre.com.au/Getting-Pay-TV-to-Work-With-MythTV.102.0.html</a><br>
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Has anyone on the list tried this technique?<br>
If so how did it go?<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br>