Michael J Gorman

For the last year my primary computer has been my Macbook Pro I purchased last July. I had before that build an High end AMD X2 system that just sat for most of the last year. I also recently purchased a ASUS EEEPC 1005HA netbook. This running Windows7 and Linux has pretty much permanently silenced my Desktop PC. That was untill I decided to turn it into a MythTV Backend (And Frontend).

I have purchased a Hauppauge PVR-150 MCE off Ebay (Hauppauge no longer ships any analog cards like this due to pressure from FCC). It should be arriving Friday. I had wanted to do this all a few years ago, but the limitation was I am using DirecTV and you had to use IR Blasters and such to control the DirectTV. This has sinced changed. The DirecTV box I have(D11) includes a USB port on the back which can be used to send control signals to the the box. All that is needed is a USB->DB9 serial, a Nullmodem db9, and another DB9 cable to connect to the PC. There are a few different scripts depending on your DirectTV box (all this info can be found at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Controlling_DirectTV_D11_via_USB ).

I am currently awaiting the delivery of my cables and capture card, once they arrive will update and continue this post with the MythTV setup and how it all works.