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New Myth Frontend - Almost Perfect

A few months ago we moved into a new place with a much smaller living room, it didn’t have nearly enough room for a full size computer case in the room. So it was time for a new, much smaller frontend for our MythTV setup.

Size, noise, and being able to “hide” it are the primary concerns with this new setup. The backend box is elsewhere and connected to the house network via a ZyXel 500Mbit powerline ethernet adapter. The new frontend is also connected via a ZyXel powerline ethernet switch. Wireless is an option, but its not stable enough or fast enough for me. There was another problem with wireless that I’ll mention later.

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Moving to MythTV Part 2 - The Frontend

So, in the last 3 weeks I’ve done a lot with MythTV.  Most notably, I’ve finished the frontend system that is connected to our TV.  There was a lot of trial and error, frustration and an entire system replacement, but its now up and near perfect.

So, a week and a half ago Comcast got installed.  I didn’t have any of the capture cards yet, so I did more reading and checking and it turns out the Comcast boxes include firewire ports.  Despite what the installers say, they’re active on the boxes thanks to a nice FCC ruling a few years back.  With active firewire ports, I wouldn’t need to get the PVR-350.  I connected everything, following the guides from the MythTV wiki and went pretty smoothly.  Or so I thought.  I did manage to get things recording, but not reliably.  In part 3, I’ll talk about my backend configuration since I’ll be doing more with that this afternoon and I’m not done with it.  With the current setup, I have been managing to record HD programs and SD programs via firewire.  That brought me to the shortcomings on the frontend…

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Moving to MythTV Part 1

Going to preface this by stating this will be a multi-part blog post, and I have no idea how many parts there will be when I’m all finished.  Oh, and like most other things I write, it will probably be really verbose.  Sorry ‘bout that, its just the way I tend to write.

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