[mythtv-users] HDHomerun Prime CCI Scanner

[Robert Kulagowski]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Robert Kulagowski <rkulagow at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
>> <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Preston Crow
>>>>> Now if there were such a script, and it would auto-upload the results to
>>>>> Schedules Direct, then people with QAM tuners in the same area would have a
>>>>> much easier time setting up their systems.  This would also be nice for
>>>>> people with both an older HD Homerun and a new Prime.
>>>>
>>>> I believe there was already a whole thread about that topic, including
>>>> a script that does exactly that.
>>>
>>> Schedules Direct has issued a number of versions of such scripts,
>>> and they seem to work reasonably.  However, the anecdotal
>>> evidence seems to suggest that (only a) few people in (only a)
>>> few areas are actually running it (regularly).
>>
>> The scripts haven't really been productized yet.  I tried it, it
>> worked, I uploaded my results, and I haven't had a chance to try it
>> again lately.
>>
>> The part of the script that's lacking is that it's not trivial to
>> automate having it run regularly in the background. It requires
>> having both a cable card and a clear qam tuner available (not in use
>> or about to be in use by mythtv).
>
> I made updates to make it more script-friendly; parameters can be
> passed on the command line, and a non-Prime is just used to make sure
> that the tuning information received is actually usable. (There are
> channels like "FEARnet" that keep showing up in a Prime scan, but that
> fail the "can you actually tune it and get good data?" with a
> non-prime.

If more people want to discuss the script, then lets move the
conversation to the forums over at Schedules Direct, since that's more
of an appropriate place for that sort of thing.