[mythtv-users] Thinking of adding DirecTV, have questions

[Andrew Theurer]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:16 AM, William Powers <wepprop at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have a similar setup with two OTA HDHR's and a single HDPVR hooked up to a DirecTV H24 STB.  My H24 only has coax audio output so I did buy  a converter but there were issues with capturing the 5.1 audio reliably so now I settle for reliable stereo capture.

Do you recall which converter you bought?  Do you think it's a problem
with the converters, or just the HD-PVR?

> I have a second H24 connected directly to the main TV set. I have no need for an additional STB and HDPVR but YMMV.
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> I have used IR, http and USB-serial to control the STB.  I had to change the default delays in the directv.pl script to get USB-serial to work reliably. I currently use a channel changing script that commands channels via http and then verifies the result via USB-serial. If no joy, the script tries a USB-serial channel change. Belt and suspenders. Details are in the archives of this mailing list.

Very interesting; I will look for that.

> You will probably need to write udev rules to keep Myth and the HDPVR talking to each other. At least I did. Otherwise the video devices will move around every reboot.

OK, thanks for the tip.  I assume I can get persistent names with some
sort of USB ID/path

-Andrew