[mythtv-users] MythTivo Content Aggrigator - Am I crazy?

Peter Pouliot peter at pouliot.net
Mon Oct 4 11:58:37 EDT 2004


James, (and everyone else)

I'm actually wondering if I can use the mythtivo interface for this as
w/ all the tivo's I really don't have the need for another pvr.   


p

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 13:27, James Armstrong wrote:

> Peter Pouliot wrote:
> 
> > hi all,
> > First time poster big time fan, so here's what I'm looking to do, am I 
> > crazy.  I'm looking to use MythTV/MythTivo as a front end to 4 Dtivo 
> > units.  In a nutshell, I currently have 4 directv/tivo (dtivo) units 
> > doing the recording and want to use a mythtv/mythtivo fe/mini-itx box 
> > as the means for getting to the content that is being recorded.
> >  
> > The breakdown:
> >
> >     * 3 DSR6000's + 1 Hughes Series Too DTivo w/ USB Network Card
> >     * Currently I inject 2 (rf modulation) of the DSR6000's into my 
> > basic cable (made
> >        my internet cheaper) stream as channels (70,75 and ir)
> >     * structured wiring (2 rg6/2 cat5e) throughout house (I have the 
> > scars to show for it)
> >     * Currently have a mini-itx/slimserver (go slimmy,sqz, and 
> > slimdevices.com) and
> >        need an excuse to builld another mini-itx server to make my 
> > house rock!
> >     * About to network/upgrade one of the DSR6000 w/ 9thT cache/nic 
> > card. (came in today)
> >       and need a reason to install software on the series too
> >     * Goal hook up a tv/ir target/coax to wall/universal remote to
> >        any 1 rg6 connection in any room and
> >        have access to all dtivo/cable resources w/o additional hardware.
> >     * Want to basically build a Tivo Cluster to work my biddings
> >     * I'm a op monkey {(pp)roboscis}
> >     * Also looking for more reasons to add the 2 other tivo's and a 
> > mini-itx
> >        Mythtv(fe) content aggrigator as channels 78, 82, 88 in my 
> > basic channel stream.
> >    am i crazy, and is it possible to make a mini-itx/mythtv box be 
> > able to handle this?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > p
> >
> >  
> >
> I've kinda of done this with my old series 1 Tivo and 9th tee card. It 
> was a manual process, but I'm sure it can be automated. I used the 
> tivoapp on my widows xp machine to get a list of shows from the Tivo 
> then mark the ones I want to download and save them as mpeg2 files right 
> to my Mythtv backend smb share. All you need to do then is import the 
> files to Mythtv or save them them to the Video directory. There is no 
> direct control of the Tivo box, just copied the old recordings off it. 
> You can use the tivo scripts that are out there to schedule recordings 
> via a web interface. Should be possible to write an interface between 
> the two.
> 
> - James
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20041004/84ad33d4/attachment.html


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list