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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 868881" data-attributes="member: 82144">Hi Kaero&nbsp;It sounds like you're talking about a blaster setup, where the HTPC controls the box. MediaPortal can do that. Have a look here:<a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/17_Extensions/3_Plugins/IRSS_%28IR_Server_Suite%29/Set_Top_Box_Blasting" target="_blank">http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/17_Extensions/3_Plugins/IRSS_(IR_Server_Suite)/Set_Top_Box_Blasting</a>&nbsp;It is reasonably complicated to get working, but it can be done.&nbsp;What Ray was suggesting is why not connect the IPTV feed directly to your HTPC? If the feed is just an internet connection then MP can handle that. If the feed is a coax cable from your cable company or the channels are encrypted then that is different story - your idea to get an analog tuner would probably be the correct approach.&nbsp;With the blaster setup: any compatible analog (or hybrid DVB-T + analog or hybrid ATSC + analog) tuner would work. That is to say, you would need to buy an analog tuner with a component, s-video, or composite video input, and some kind of blaster device (eg. USB UIRT) that can send IR commands to the IPTV box to tell it to change channels. The card must be a tuner card because with the exception of the Hauppauge HD-PVR and Colossus, MediaPortal does not support pure capture cards.&nbsp;A few tips:- make sure you avoid cards that require the audio to be connected to the sound card with a cable - they're also not supported- if you can afford it, get a card with hardware encoding for the video and audio such as the Hauppauge HVR-1600; any card that requires software encoders (which includes most cheaper ones) may prove unreliable in the long run (eg. audio/video dropping out for no reason, lag between the video and audio) and will put load on your computer's CPU&nbsp;mm</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 868881, member: 82144"] Hi Kaero It sounds like you're talking about a blaster setup, where the HTPC controls the box. MediaPortal can do that. Have a look here: [url]http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/17_Extensions/3_Plugins/IRSS_%28IR_Server_Suite%29/Set_Top_Box_Blasting[/url] It is reasonably complicated to get working, but it can be done. What Ray was suggesting is why not connect the IPTV feed directly to your HTPC? If the feed is just an internet connection then MP can handle that. If the feed is a coax cable from your cable company or the channels are encrypted then that is different story - your idea to get an analog tuner would probably be the correct approach. With the blaster setup: any compatible analog (or hybrid DVB-T + analog or hybrid ATSC + analog) tuner would work. That is to say, you would need to buy an analog tuner with a component, s-video, or composite video input, and some kind of blaster device (eg. USB UIRT) that can send IR commands to the IPTV box to tell it to change channels. The card must be a tuner card because with the exception of the Hauppauge HD-PVR and Colossus, MediaPortal does not support pure capture cards. A few tips: - make sure you avoid cards that require the audio to be connected to the sound card with a cable - they're also not supported - if you can afford it, get a card with hardware encoding for the video and audio such as the Hauppauge HVR-1600; any card that requires software encoders (which includes most cheaper ones) may prove unreliable in the long run (eg. audio/video dropping out for no reason, lag between the video and audio) and will put load on your computer's CPU mm [/QUOTE]

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