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. For work I had been given brand-new PocketPC with remote control software. I actually just wrote a program send artificial mouse clicks to the PocketPC. It worked, but it was so damn hacky I gave up. This area of computer-consumer-technology is in just pathetic shape. There's a million half-assed solutions primarily geared towards electronics engineers whose web pages tend to describe how they blew up their devices doing something... :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
