[mythtv-users] Using mythtv as a plain VCR with xmltv but no broadband connection to internet

[Jimmy Larsson]

Sounds good. I guess there are plenty of PPP-howotos for Linux out 
there, so I am not at all worried about that part. ;)

So, will I have any problem if I get a box with an internal vanilla 
PCI-modem that costs almost nothing as is probably unlabeled?

(I know this is out of scope for this mailing-list. I hereby give myself 
an official of-topic-warning and promise not to do it again. :-) )

/Jimmy

Daniel Savard wrote:

>Le jeu 12/08/2004 à 08:11, Jimmy Larsson a écrit :
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>>Too bad, I have no DVB.
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>>I am just so focused by the feature to be able to tell the "VCR" to 
>>"always record This Serie and That Program and That Show, no matter on 
>>which channel and what time".
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>>Besides from the feature above I will use the mythtv-box as MP3-player 
>>and DVD-player. The only "online-feature" I really MUST have is to get 
>>the program table automatically into the box. That is easy with a static 
>>internet-connection, but as long as I live on the countryside I have to 
>>stick to my old modem. :/
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>You can setup your box with the modem to automatically call your
>provider when a packet is routed on the ppp0 interface using the
>on-demand feature of pppd. You have to setup also the idle time before
>closing the connection. It is working fine for more than three years for
>my home network. I have a old linux box acting as a router with the
>modem for outside connections, a wireless card for the wireless network,
>a ethernet interface for the wired network and it is running pppd in the
>on-demand mode (the interface is created and useable for routing even if
>the connection is not actually made with the ISP) and dhcpd to provide
>dynamically addresses to new hosts.
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