RE: Controlling MythTV from the network?

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, and another question - does anyone use MythTV in conjunction with
Sky+ in any way - what do you do? It's such a shame Sky+ is such a closed
system!

Paul.



-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul
Gale
Sent: 30 March 2006 12:46
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Controlling MythTV from the network?

Just been looking at Myth - looks good :-)

Was thinking of using an old box with a medium speed CPU (enough to
playback as I don't need encoding support - yet) and putting it in Node0. A
couple of things spring to mind:

Remote control - either get a supported IR device and control it via my IR
network OR use the supported telnet method and somehow get HomeVision to
run the telnet commands on receipt of an IR command via the IR network?

Video output - since my video matrix switcher is composite only (good
enough for most feeds), I'd need to distribute composite - no problem but
my 50" plasma is the one display in the house that would notice the
lack of quality. I also have component and VGA inputs to the plasma but as
they are already in use, I'd need either a VGA or Component switcher which
would probably be fairly expensive?

Anyone already solved these problems - what did you do?

Thanks,

Paul.





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