On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 09:45 -0700, Dave Fallon wrote: > Hi, I'm a relatively new mythtv user, and I've run into two problems. > These aren't myth issues, per se, but I figured the collective experts > here might have some ideas. > > So, I've got a myth box setup with a hauppage PVR-250. I'm using cable > (comcast, in the LA, CA area), and I'm trying to run it direct into the > tuner0 port of the pvr card. This is working for most channels when I > have it set to us-cable-hrc, but channels above 40 aren't working - the > signal is scrambled, I'm just getting audio. Looks like a pay-per-view > channel, almost. It works fine when I plug the cable box back in and run > it direct to the TV. I've been trying to avoid the cable box, as then I > have to figure out how to get the serial port to change channels, but > that's my fallback if I can't figure anything else out.
FWIW it's worth, I see the same with Comcast in Boston area. I believe the lower channels are the analogue channels, and are broadcast without encryption. The higher channels are the digital cable channels, and those are broadcast encrypted, which the STB decrypts. I don't know of any way around that (but would love to hear of one). Since you're going to have to use a STB to watch the digital cable channels, try to get one with a firewire port enabled, although you may have to go to the HD package for that. You can use that for the channel changing - if you get a Moto 6200, Myth comes complete with scripts for changing channels (somewhere in the setup stuff). -- Peter
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