[mythtv-users] On the Road - Remote Frontend

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Oct 15, 2008, at 3:31 PM, DISAFAN wrote:

> Kevin Kuphal suggested the Slingbox. However, the purpose of  
> Slingbox is
> to do exactly what I might seek to do in software. Besides, my cable  
> box
> at home is married to my MythTV backend. Where would I stick the  
> Slingbox?

If no one else is at home using your current frontend, put the  
slingbox between your frontend machine and your display or on a dual- 
head video card you can mirror your display and have 1 output to your  
display and the other to your slingbox. I added a frontend onto a  
slave backend that no one uses so I wouldn't interrupt any other  
frontends in the house. Then you'll need to blast whatever IR receiver  
you're using now to control your frontend with the slingbox's blaster,  
set up the right codes in the slingbox and you should be good to go.

Now when you connect to the Slingbox, you're looking at a frontend as  
if it was right in front of you and you control it with the on-screen  
remote control and you have access to everything that would normally  
be available to you with a local frontend, not just select programs.

This is a much less complicated way to accomplish what you're trying  
to do. I've been down this road before and have come up with 2  
solutions:
1. Slingbox
2. Transcode what I want to watch to a video podcast and sync to  
iTunes (then sync to iPhone, iPod, or just watch on the laptop). I use  
video2ipod (http://wiki.1.jeffornot.com:8000/index.php/Video2ipod) for  
that and just recently got it working again with my h264 content from  
my HD-PVRs. It took some hacking, but it's all good now.


-Brad