On Tuesday 10 January 2006 10:18, Meatwad wrote: > Matt wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I did a little searching, but never found any real discussion on > > integrating XM (or other satellite radio) into MythTV. Are any of the > > developers interested in this? I bring it up because over Christmas, > > my family and I subscribed to XM radio. While I can hook it directly > > to my stereo, I'd love to be able to use it directly in MythTV. > > > > I have to admit, I didn't come up with the idea. I was walking > > through Best Buy yesterday and I saw the Windows XP Media Center > > display. However, one of the employees was listening to and changing > > XM channels on it. So, I went home and found this: > > > > http://www.xmradio.com/newsroom/screen/pr_2005_ces_microsoft.html > > > > Basically it appears that there's a plugin in Windows MCE that acts as > > a frontend wrapper around "XM Radio Online" which allows XM > > subscribers to stream music over the net. What's nice about it is the > > way it presents the information to the user. > > > > I think SageTV also has a sirrius and XM plugin as well. > > > > Either way, I just wanted to see if anyone besides me would be > > interested in such a plugin! > > I was thinking about this as well but from a hardware perspective. The > Polk XRt12 XM radio tuner can be used just as we currently use Direct TV > receivers - with some bonuses. First, the digital out of the Polk could > be routed to your soundcard's digital input which maintains the > all-digital path to the harddrive. Secondly, the RS-232 port on the back > is bi-directional. While discrete commands be issued by the plugin to > the receiver, the receiver can provide the plugin with metadata such as > "what's playing now." > > I would suspect that for such a plugin to actually be released with > mythtv, certain conditions would need to be met such as a reliable > program data source for the XM content so that the recordings could be > handled by the existing scheduler framework. I recall Isaac disallowing > the MythFM plugin from releases because it did not meet this requirement. > > At this point an FM tuner could be adapted with relative ease, assuming > reliable program data sources were available for the desired stations of > course.
along with what James Oltman posted (which looks like a sweet little device), XM Full channel listing, with per-channel schedule links, easily scrape-able. http://www.xmradio.com/programming/full_channel_listing.jsp?sort=number Sirius has a similar set up on their web page but theres no good homepage for their schedule listing, so while a little more difficult to scrape, its possible none the less. -- Steve who, if theres a good MythTV plugin for satelite radio, might actuall subscribe... _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
