Re: [PLUG] HDHomeRun and Comcast Pre-liminary Report

[zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com>]

On 10/5/07, Edward Smola <meanderis@mac.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the info so far.  I'm quite interested in hearing all about
> your experience.  I really am thinking about getting one but haven't
> found enough usefull local feedback on how easy it is to get it
> working with SD.  I'd be interested in finding out all the channels
> you get.  Right now it's that or another pvr-500.
>
> Edward Smola

I have an HDHR that I use with EyeTV on OSX (Mac Mini as dedicated
HTPC) with Verizon FiOS.

It's awesome, the dual-tuner feature is a must-have if you share
living space with anyone else, although sometimes EyeTV takes control
of the currently open live window rather than the spare tuner to
record shows -- that can be annoying.  I dunno if MythTV has this
problem.

as I understand it, the HDHR just does an MPEG-2 TS to UDP
passthrough.  I'm all about "the network is the computer" and Linux on
embedded devices such as with DD-WRT on wireless access points (e.g.
Linksys WRT54GL) or Gentoo on Network Attached Storage (NAS) (e.g.
Linkstation Pro)

however, it is only an ATSC and QAM tuner, not an analog-to-digital
converter.  if you need the "analog hole" for your timeshifting, I
recommend the Canopus ADVC110 which does a simple RCA to DV conversion
(bi-directional).


> On Oct 5, 2007, at 2:32 PM, TuskenTower <tuskentower@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > All,
> > I attended the MythTV presentation by on Sept 22 hosted at the ATS
> > Group.  Andrew, another attendee who had an HDHomeRun offered to let
> > me borrow his to try it out with Comcast.
> >
> > It was pretty funny having to wait till I could configure it since my
> > MythTV system was always recording when I had time to mess with it.  I
> > finally configured it with one RF input for OTA and the other for
> > comcast cable.
> >
> > I ran a scan of channels and a large number came in.  Someone had told
> > me before that QAM256 does not pick up the analog channels.  I did not
> > pick up the analog channels (at least not at their normal numbers).
> >
> > The free to air HD channels came in just fine.  I used the standard
> > cable scan which did everything from 0 to max.  These channels come in
> > at the same numbering that my HDTV "sees".  I can record from those
> > channels and view everything just fine.  Watching live TV over the
> > HDHomeRun occasionally stuttered, but that might be my hardware.
> >
> > Other channels are there, but they do not correspond to anything that
> > comes through with Schedules Direct's listings (the HD channels didn't
> > get their listing from SD either).  I did a quick run through of what
> > channels came up with both MythTV and my HDTV.  For the most part the
> > scanned channels exist.  Some channels were either scrambled,
> > non-existent or snow (in two cases).  The HDTV actually picked up a
> > few more channels than the HDHomeRun.
> >
> > I'll try to do some more testing this weekend to see what I find.  I
> > did do a list of all the channels that I found.  I did find many
> > analog signals coming in over QAM256, some free to air and others
> > which look like very basic cable channels.
> >
> > Amul
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