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[edoc]

I just received a SiliconDust HDTV tuner that puts the output on an IP.

Same as this except that mine came via WOOT:
<http://www.amazon.com/SiliconDust-HDHomeRun-Definition-Television-HDHR3-US/dp/B004HO58SO/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1336780397&sr=1-1>

To SiliconDust's great testimony they provide drivers for Apple, Linux, and MS versions of windows.

They list MythTV on the box for Linux but here's where their Linux link takes you once you bring up the IP address of the device:

<http://www.silicondust.com/support/hdhomerun/downloads/linux/>

Question:

1. Will this work with Puppy or is there something about it that is a problem?

2. Can this be made a PET or SFS?

3. Does this appear to replace the need for MythTV, or is this necessary for MythTV to work with this device?

We have dpup Exprimo 5x14 on the computers here.

Thanks!

(Note: This is a cross-post from the 5x14 thread as things are really quiet there lately.)

[stu90]

Hi edoc,
I don't have any TV card but saw this post by kevin bowers over in the Lucid thread - maybe this link and the link throughs will be of some use to you?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=625606#625606

[edoc]

[stu90]

Hi edoc,
I imagine MythTv is not the easiest package to build - if you are using Exprimo then you could try downloading the ubuntu .deb packages with Gongetit - Menu > Setup > Gongetit then click on the directory containing all the downloaded .deb files and use the right click menus to extract all .debs in folder > then right click the extracted .deb directory and > dir2sfs or dir2pet to build the packages+dependencies for puppy.

This is not guaranteed to create a working package but should be a good start.

[edoc]

I thought he said MythTV was ready to go, just needed the PET for the GTK related to the IP tuner.

I will have another look to be certain.

Thanks for the heads-up. Sure would be nice to have all of the features of MythTV available for Puppy!

[edoc]

I was just looking at the MythTV page for the SiliconDust HDHomeRun dual channel HDTV-IP tuner and learned that the company is based in New Zealand.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Silicondust_HDHomeRun

Now I really need to find someone to help me get to this working in Puppy or Barry might be unhappy!

[edoc]

Hey stu90!

Any chance these Debian Etch instructions for MythTV would be helpful to someone trying to build a PET or SFS for MythTV for Puppy Linux dpup Exprimo 5x14?

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Debian_Etch

[edoc]

Any idea why my effort to compile failed, please?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=627284#627284

[edoc]

Bump!

Is MythTV simply too hard to make work under Puppy?

Seems a shame that there is not a DVR app, MythTV or similar, for Puppy ...

[kooliepup]

[patelbhavesh]

i also got a silicon hdhomerun 1st version and would like to run it on puppy.i didnt have too much luck with mythbuntu as the picture would freeze at a high frequency then compared to Windows for the same source and it was not watchable

So i definitely would try out if mythtv ran on puppy.

[edoc]

I am getting back to this project ... seems there has been zero activity by others.

I've been plowing through the prerequisites necessary for hdhomerun and MythTV, including MySQL.

Perhaps some of this may render both my SiliconDust TV device and my Hauppauge video interface dongle useful under Puppy - both have been gathering dust for a while.

If anyone has MythTV & their SiliconDust TV via IP working with Puppy (especially, but not exclusively, Exprimo) please share that info!

The SiliconDust links state that they will update the MythTV info but that's been up for months - no update - so I am trying to follow other instructions from the Ubuntu and other online posts.

I will post what I learn ...