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i have been reading and researching dreambox solution , they seem pretty good and are linux based. They not being dev anymore the company is focusing on a new project "Project Goliath" etc etc can find it out easy enough on fleabay and google. On 5 July 2015 at 20:59, Daniel Robinson <manipula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Boxie box... Just copy that! > > On 5 Jul 2015 12:46 pm, "Simon Avery" <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On 4 July 2015 at 19:44, bad apple <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Damn it, more MythTV! DKMS'ing modules is like clockwork for me, but I >>> can't drop something on my end users that requires manual intervention >>> like that... This is exactly why MythTV is effectively unusable for >>> anyone except hackers or Linux sysadmins. "End users" in this case is >>> elderly family members that decidedly don't want complicated crap like >>> that to deal with, and I can't SSH into their box every day just to make >>> sure something isn't broken. Again. >> >> >> Mythtv is not simple software to set up. Never has been, likely never will >> be. >> >> I've found their devs to be /extremely/ closed-minded, more so than any >> other project I've worked with. When I asked how to rename the files to be >> human friendly, the response was "Don't rename them, or you won't be able to >> play back". When I explained that I didn't want to play back through the >> myth interface, rather playing the mpgs directly from the FS, I actually got >> abuse back. >> >> So I looked at the mysql database, wrote some perl, and my script has been >> happily doing just that for half a decade. >> >> Anyway, despite that it's good software without equal. But it's not for >> end users. It's for geeks who are enjoy spending time faffing around getting >> it working. >> >> My freesat solution is: >> >> A 120cm dish that I bought very cheaply to mess around with foreign TV >> reception. When I grew bored of that, it stayed in a shed until digital >> switchover made DVB-T / Freeview completely unusable. Seriously, Freeview >> worked fine before DSO, then after no matter how much faffing, alignment and >> new aerials, remained stubbornly crap. >> >> So I dug the dish out of the shed, bought a quad LNB off ebay for a few >> quid. Two lines from that go to my server in the loft and record anything on >> freesat that I want (or myth identifies from keywords). >> >> Two more [1] lines from that quad go into the living room and into the >> back of a Humax freesat box with a 500gb hdd. It's a beautifully designed >> and very reliable unit with a nice interface. My wife can drive it better >> than I can. Full smooth seek, rewind, live pause, scheduling - all the stuff >> that Sky+ gives at a price, this thing does for freesat. It's very nice and >> would be the unit I recommend to your relatives as a "Install and forget" >> freesat solution. >> >> >> [1] - So you can watch one thing and record another. Or record two things. >> >> >> >> -- >> The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >> http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list >> FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq >> > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq