Dbox2 and Mythtv

nehemia

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Hiyas.

I was doing some searching on mythtv working with the dbox... and I noticed a few of the peeps here were thinking about having a go...

well.. I've just managed to get mine working.

1. If you don't know even a little bit about Linux, forget it!

2. If you don't know even a little bit about Linux, forget it!

3. If you don't know even a little bit about Linux, forget it!

How did I do it?

Well... here it is, in a nutshell.

Download the mythtv 0.18.1 source code from here
Unpack it with tar -xvjpf mythtv-0.18.1.bz2
download the patch file from here
unpack the patch with

tar -xvjpf mythtv-dbox2-200508022011.patch.bz2

copy the patch into mythtv-0.18.1 with

cp mythtv-dbox2-200508022011.patch mythtv-0.18.1/.

cd mythtv-0.18.1 (i.e. cd to the directory where you unpacked the mythtv bz2 file into)
do:

patch -p1 < mythtv-dbox2-200508022011.patch

Then do:

./configure --enable-dbox2

then

qmake mythtv.pro
make
make install

and then... well if you got that far, have a cup of tea & pat yourself on the back!

Note: this will not work with Knoppmyth, so don't even think about it.
 
Do you mean you got mythtv running off your dbox or your pc? I'd be interested to see it work off a pc. Or a pc with my dbox functionality!! :)

Mors
 
Hi nehemia - I would also be very interested in your expeirence with MythTV & a DBox. I looked at MythTV about a year ago as a possible media pc solution but gave up as I couldn't integrate it with the cable feed (only had the pace box at the time). What sort of PC are you using? Can I deduce from your nickname that it may be a Via Mini-ITX system?
 
I've been running a mythtv system (PC based) for almost a year now, with a Freeview tuner in it. I bought the dbox so I could record cable channels without needing a capture card or any of that nasty business with IR blasters etc ;)

Anyway - system it's currently running on is working nicely, so the dbox patched code isn't on that ... YET.

So. I've got a spare PC running Gentoo Linux, 1GHz athlon with 256MB RAM - seems to be working very nicely with the code patched to work with the dbox2 :D This PC is not part of my main system yet - I've got to do a whole lot of testing on it before I'll let it loose into everyday use.

To do:
test the dbox recording a lot
try to change the EPG grabber so you can disable it (mythtv can grab programme guide info from the internet - 14 days worth, but the dbox stuff overwrites it).
test the new system with a freeview card in it to confirm that part still works okay.

You CANNOT run mythtv on a dbox for lots of reasons, the main one being that mythtv needs X to run and the dbox has limited RAM (it'd be NICE though wouldn't it?).

Mythtv is for PCs, xboxes and Mac-minis ;)

My mythtv system (what I call my 'production' system I use every day) has the Freeview tuner, and it's sitting upstairs in a noisy case. In the living room I've got a Via Mini-ITX system booting over the network (no HDD inside it, see) which acts as the 'frontend'. You can run it all in one box if you like - even putting it all inside a mini-itx case so long as you've got lots of disk space to store recordings.

One big thing about Mythtv is that it's not for quitters. Yeah it can be a pain in the arse to learn Linux, but that's not Mythtv's fault.
 
you can get mythtv working with N*T*L and Telly Best and no need for cable box if you install a dvb-c card in your pc.

you can order a dvb-c card from germany new or get a second hand one off ebay. Only costs 40 punds second hand and 70 quid new. Then put you cable feed into card and the mythtv uses it and a normal dvb-t card but you have all the channels.

www.dvb-shop.net.
 
davelister33333 said:
you can get mythtv working with N*T*L and Telly Best and no need for cable box if you install a dvb-c card in your pc.

you can order a dvb-c card from germany new or get a second hand one off ebay. Only costs 40 punds second hand and 70 quid new. Then put you cable feed into card and the mythtv uses it and a normal dvb-t card but you have all the channels.

www.dvb-shop.net.

And this gets round the encryption HOW?
 
Mythtv is an open-source PVR solution for Linux. Think of it like Windows MCE, but it really works and is very flexible.

FYI Mythtv doesn't run ON the Dbox.. you use it on a PC, which connects to the dbox
 
nehemia - excellent post m8! This'll really help me out when I get round to setting up MythTv on the Kurobox. Haha, after reading your post, it makes the whole thing almost trivial.

All I need to do now is find an empty hard disk........
 
chi said:
nehemia - excellent post m8! This'll really help me out when I get round to setting up MythTv on the Kurobox. Haha, after reading your post, it makes the whole thing almost trivial.

All I need to do now is find an empty hard disk........

LOL... you reckon?!

I'm just on testing a new bit of code to skip the bit where it grabs the EPG data from the box - on a certain condition. C++ for beginners... straight in at the deep end!
 
nehemia - it'll be cool to hear how far you get with the MythTV and the DBox combo. Especially since the DBox can do most of the tricks offered by MythTV. What are your plans with this setup?

I had this great idea of using MythTV almost a year ago, even went as far as buying a "nebula" card. The card is still sitting in the box - untouched. Gah, need a kick up the backside. :)
 
My plan is to use the dbox as a video source for mythtv in addition to the freeview PCI card I already use. I don't have any plan to try to change the dbox's code to act as a mythtv frontend.
 
nehemia you can get around the encrytion using soft cam - software emulation for cams. i have it work under mythtv as well as having a dbox2.
 
Right then... update time...

The dbox isn't working with mythtv.. at least not for any reasonable amount of time. Either the mythtv dbox2 code isn't working with hokey boxes, or my box is a piece of crap.

The price of free TV is too high.
 
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