Firewire? IR Blasting? HD-DVR solution (1 Viewer)

[djkms]

Ok here's the deal. I'm trying to get my digital cable box integrated with MP somehow. I have a Scientific Atlanta 8300HD box - cable provided by Cox. From what I have read you can record and change channels via firewire. Info found here:
How to record via IEEE 1394 (Firewire) to Windows XP - AVS Forum

Now from what I have read you need this little nifty program found here:
MCE Firewire recording and channel change

Ok for my first issue - this driver doesn't support 64 bit OS's - so I did some digging around and found this thread:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/.../firewire-stb-tuner-support-19361/#post146535

Which is what brings me here. I don't really care about recording via mp, I don't mind recording with my cable box. What I would like to do is get the tv listings (Cox San Diego) into media portal, select the show I want in the guide and have mp change the channel via IR blaster or firewire. Is this possible? I basically want to use mp as my tv guide instead of using the ugly one in my cable box.

 

[and-81]

Set up TV Server with all the channels on your STB as external channels, get the epg data imported and setup either the external channel changer plugin to run the command line tool (from fire stb) to tune the channel.

The plugin will work for any time you select an external channel, not just for scheduled recordings.

Does that explain it?

 

[djkms]

Set up TV Server with all the channels on your STB as external channels, get the epg data imported and setup either the external channel changer plugin to run the command line tool (from fire stb) to tune the channel.

The plugin will work for any time you select an external channel, not just for scheduled recordings.

Does that explain it?

Sounds good, I will give it a shot and report back - thanks!

 

[ToXIc]

hey djkms any updates?