Re: building a tivo?
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:34:16PM -0800, Tom wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:21:04PM -0600, Rob Benton wrote:
> > Last time I looked into Tivo it somehow downloaded a list of available
> > programs from the satellite/cable feed and kind of "grep-ed" on that for
> > things you were interested in. That would probably be the hardest part.
> >
> > On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 15:57, Matt Price wrote:
> > > Anyone out there built a tivo-like DVR to record programs off of
> > > cabsle or stellite tv? What's involved? I imagine one of the big
> > > tricks is justtuningthe hcannel -- or am I wrong?
> > >
> > > look forward from hearing from y'a\ll.
>
> To me the hardest thing is changing the channel on the cable box.
> My ReplayTV has an IR-blaster that does it. Several of the hardware
> cards claim to have something that works, and there's LIRC, but I never
> could get it to work.
I'd love to hear other people's experiences -- since we have digital
cable, this is a central concern for me...
thx everyone for the pointers to xmltv, mythtv, freevo, etc.
mp
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