[mythtvnz] First time MythTV box - some questions...

[toby]

If you ring up sky and ask for a Sky decoder with an SVideo output, they 
will replace your existing decoder with a new one.
It cost me around $20 one off charge.
It made quite an improvement to the capture quality.

It doesn't sound from your description like you have an IRblaster to 
change the channel on the sky decoder.
You will probably have to make or buy one but they are fairly easy.
Mine was very easy to get going in Mythbuntu 8.04, you just choose 
IRBlaster in the control panel then copy the change_chan script 
somewhere useful and tell myth the path to it.

+1 on also buying a DVB card to go along with your sky decoder. If for 
no other reason that the picture quality is an order of magnitude better.

Regards
Toby

Phill Coxon wrote:
> Hi everyone, 
>
> I've just picked up a very cheap PVR-150 so decided I should finally get
> around to building a mythtv box into a crappy old compaq desktop I had
> lying around. 
>
> I've installed MythBuntu 8.04 and zoomed through the initial
> configuration to get it up and running. 
>
> The initial questions I have are:
>
>
> 1) How do I configure the remote / receiver?
>
> The PVR-150 I bought came with two remotes - the one included in the
> PVR-150 Media Center box with the square "windows" button (no model
> number that I can find) and another brand new one with a round "windows"
> button with a model number TSHA-IR01. 
>
> The two IR receivers / transmitters look identical but have model
> numbers TSES-IR01 and TSES-IR12 respectively. 
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction as to which remote(s) +
> receiver(s) I should be selecting from the config list?
>
>
> 2) I will be using this box to record content off our sky decoder so I
> can watch movies / documentaries etc at a later date. 
>
> What's the best way to connect the sky box ouput to the PVR-150? It has
> a scart cable attached at the moment but no s-video lead.  Does anyone
> know if I can replace that with a scart cable with s-video on it to plug
> into the PVR-150? Otherwise I guess I'm stuck with the standard coax
> connector. 
>
> 3) What's the best way to integrate mythtv so that I can select and mark
> content I want to record?
>
> Can I use the mythtv EPG to view sky listings, select programs to record
> and have the IR blaster tell the sky box what to do at the right time?
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
>
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