[mythtvnz] Sky->smart card reader->MythTV ???

[Steve Hodge]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Kenneth Dixon <ken.dixon at clear.net.nz>wrote:

> My brother was interested in setting up a MythTV box, he has
> Sky but is not keen on IR Blasting.


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).


> After some investigation, it looks like it might be possible
> to skip the middleman (Sky decoder box) and use a smart card
> reader plugged directly into the MythTV box to do the
> decoding. There are a couple of NZ forums doing it for
> Windows


Can you post some links? I'd be interested in seeing how it's working...


> and I found an Ausie site with a howto for Linux:
> http://omcentre.com.au/Getting-Pay-TV-to-Work-With-MythTV.102.0.html
>
> Has anyone on the list tried this technique?
> If so how did it go?
>

Cheers,
Steve
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