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<div>Sorry guys this will probably top post I am sending from a tablet.</div><div>I have been pulling the EPG directly from the stream using my old nova t card .I am running mythbuntu 6.04 an myth 0.28 and it is all playing fine still have problems with the build and myth Web. This is a good option as everything is built into myth for this to happen</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature">CHEERS STU</div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: David Moore <dmoo1790@ihug.co.nz> <br>Date: 02/03/2017 5:00 pm (GMT+12:00) <br>To: mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz <br>Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] New member <br><br>On 02/03/17 16:13, Criggie wrote:<br>> Cool - welcome<br>><br>> What hardware do you have available for this project?<br>><br>> You'll want a minimum of<br>> * A TV with HDMI input (vga works in a pinch but is not as pretty)<br>> * A quietish PC with HDMI output that you can leave running 24/7<br>> * Somewhere to leave it running out of the way, that won't get hot or<br>> bumped. Behind the TV is ideal.<br>> * A broadband internet connection<br>> * Some kind of receiver and aerial.....:<br>><br>> My understanding is a HD Homerun receiver and a UHF aerial are great if<br>> you're in urban area with good signal (ie, dvb-t or terrestrial coverage)<br>><br>> Otherwise you need a satellite dish and a couple of dvb-s tuner cards.<br>><br>> And whatever cabling is needed to tie it all together.<br>><br>><br>><br>> Peter Charlesworth wrote:<br>>> I've joined the mailing list today, mainly as a response to the news that<br>>> TiVo will be defunct in NZ after October 2017. I'm devastated about this,<br>>> since we have three TiVo units, and can't speak highly enough of how good<br>>> they have been in practical functionality, as well as an alternative to<br>>> the offerings of Sky TV, to which I have a philosophical aversion.<br>>><br>>> I'm a technically capable person and I understand electrons, but I have<br>>> minimal practical experience at "circuit-board level", so the initial<br>>> onslaught of unfamiliar terms and concepts I have encountered in reading<br>>> the<br>>> MythTV pages today have been somewhat mind boggling. However, I'm hoping<br>>> that with the guidance of New Zealand experts in the MythTV field, and the<br>>> general information in the extensive resources of the main website, I may<br>>> in time be able to learn enough to assemble a good MythTV set-up of my<br>>> own.<br>>> It certainly seems to be the best prospect that I can find to replace the<br>>> features of TiVo, and probably exceed them.<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> I look forward to hearing from you all,<br>>><br>>> Regards,<br>>><br>>> Peter<br>>><br><br>One thing you may have to get used to is the EPG pulled from the <br>freeview web site sometimes has problems. Rare but they do occur. <br>Personally I didn't want to live with an internet EPG so I developed <br>mhegepgsnoop to pull the EPG directly from the DVB-T (terrestrial) <br>broadcast data. Unfortunately this won't work for satellite (DVB-S) <br>broadcast nor will it work with an HDHomeRun.<br><br>Getting the right hardware is the hard part. Lots of info at places like <br>linuxtv.org to help with this. And of course asking questions on this <br>and the main MythTV list. Actually installing MythTV is a breeze if you <br>stick with the defaults.<br><br>BTW I didn't run my system (currently broken - HDD failure) 24/7. It is <br>quite simple to set up MythTV so that it shuts down overnight but wakes <br>up the PC when it needs to record.<br><br>Cheers<br>David<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtvnz mailing list<br>mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz<br>http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz<br>Archives http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/<br></body></html>