On 7/12/05, Mr AG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The thing with this is, having my cable > box in the basement, means, NOT having it upstairs.... *obvious, I > know.* >
What kind of cable do you get? If it's just analog cable you don't need to touch the cable box. Just split the cable and send one signal straight into your Myth backend and your PVR x50 card can do the tuning. If it's digital cable, you'll need to use IRBlaster, serial, or firewire to control the cable box from MythTV (to get the digital channels; the analog channels should come through normally), which may mean complications with using a frontend remote to change the channels on the backend (at the very least you'll get a noticable delay in channel changing, but why would you use Myth to watch live TV?). In the case of digital, it may be worth buying or renting a cable box to keep the channel surfing capabilities, if it's important to you. Other than that, Myth is designed as a distributed backend, frontend system and there's not a whole lot of trouble getting it set up to do what you want. Good Luck _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
