MythTV, if you follow the design principle, is best constructed with multiple machines. This separates your BackEnd (BE) server process from your FrontEnd (FE) server process and allows for the entire setup to be completely client/server based over a network. Not sure of what I mean? Well, the idea is relatively simple: Set up one
Because we have DirecTV with the RCA satellite receiver, there is one key script for managing the most important item with the set top box: changing the channel. From the site http://www.pdp8.net/directv/directv.shtml, I pulled down the following SetTopBox script script, and it worked beautifully. However, one thing didn’t work with the standard “./directv.pl setup_channel” command:
For over a year now, I’ve been planning to build myself a MythTV box. With the whole DirecTivo thing going on (DirecTv is supposedly planning on dropping the Tivo with their own POS), I figured it was time to get on to something open (like the rest of the systems in my house). I’ve been