[myth-ie] testing!

[Brendan Kehoe]

>> Who can give me an easy way to get my Myth box talking to my NTL digital
>> box?
>>
>> I have a Hauppauge 350 with the MCE type remote, and I bought a serial
>> IR blaster from irblaster.info but have not been able to get it to work.
>> I also recently ordered the red_eye blaster, as someone had said that it
>> works with the Irish NTL digital box. Haven't received that yet.
>>     

up, this is what I'm using:
    http://www.redremote.co.uk/serial/
I describe it at
    http://www.zen.org/?p=314

> (I'm actually planning to go back from NTL Digital to NTL analogue,
> due to crappy reliability of the digital set-top box...)
>   

Heh, we're due for another service call on Thursday to replace yet
another Pace box.  They never last more than six months.  This one has
the recent habit of thinking we're not subscribed to anything.  It went
thru a recent period of also freezing up on us.  But having things like
Nick Jr and More4 are making us stick with it.  (The temptation is there
to use Sky HD, but the cost is so much more that I can't justify the
expense---yet.  Rumor is NTL may be doing an HD trial soon...)

>
>> It seems to me there should be a simple database import of the relevent
>> info that I could do from a working installation, or am I hoping for too
>> much?!

The idea of importing SQL commands actually struck me as an idea the
other day.  I've got a Fedora Core 3 box going, and the ATRPMS support
for that version is no longer.  As such, I'm thinking of doing a healthy
new install with Fedora Core 6 (or maybe KnoppMyth) and replace the
250Gb disk currently in there with the blank 500Gb that's sitting on the
shelf next to me.

My idea is to get a mysql dump of the full database, pull out the parts
that actually matter, and once I've got the new system up be able to
just import all of that to set things up.  In particular, I would really
rather not manually go thru adding the various scheduled recordings, etc.

B