![]() Solution: Installed dd-wrt and set up a static lease for my backend Issue: DHCP kept changing IP address of backend After doing some reading, it seemed that the DNS name thing was kind of undependable, so IP address it was. Then I realized I had DHCP on, so I had to lock in the IP address for the backend. Of course, we also ordered a 1TB HD :) After transcoding, the kids shows take about 1G/30 minutes and adult shows When the shows build up, we may auto-transcode more of them. Shows because we tend to watch them the same night. Make sure to watch the adult shows quickly. Issue: HD recordings can take up to 6Gb/hour. No solution found yet.Īfter getting it to work, I got LiveTV! Everything was working great on my backend. Solution: Not sure if this is common with tuner cards or just this one. Issue: The tuner card does not like it when you watch the same channel on both tuners. Hauppaugeĭoes have more recent drivers, but will not work due to hardcoded driver size in the kernel. You will still need the firmware files included in the link above. NOTE: Whenever you update the kernel image, you WILL have to re-compile thisġ0.04 LTS NOTE: Supported in the Kernel. Solution: God liked me and gave Steven Toth the great wisdom to make drivers for it. Issue: Hauappage TV Tuner Card does not work in Linux out of the box So I ordered the Hauppauge 2250 Tuner card. After looking at the eye candy and the features, I got preliminary wife So I installed a BE/FE configuration on my backend for testing. Now, for the part you probably came here for, Getting MythTV Working.Īfter some research, I found that mythbuntu was one of the more popular options in terms of forum and documentation support. Of course, buying used you run the risk of the hardware going bad on you sooner, so I may need to spend that 150 anyway later on when one of my machines die. So there goes the budget :( It will take about a year and a half to start making money off of the setup. Total Cost: $793.99 + some shipping not included aboveĪpprox Savings from buying used instead of new hardware: (assuming $200 per frontend) $151.01 Remotes: - 2 Streamzap PC Remotes from Amazon - $60 ScheduleDirect for program listing - $20/year TV: - Terk Technology HDTVi antenna - $45 from Frys ![]() The powerline stuff is expensive, but it is working really well. *Note* I tried a wireless card, SD channels showed up great, but the HD channels were horrible. Networking: Total: $218 - Linksys Router - already owned ZOTAC ZT-94TEH2L-FDR-V1 GeForce 9400 GT 512MB - $41 from neweggįrontend 2: Total: $113.99 - HP 2.6GHz - $80 from craigslist Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 tuner card - $112įrontend 1: Total: $135 - Dell Optiplex 320 3.0GHz - $80 from craigslist Dish + Landline cost about $500/year.īackend: Total: $202 - I had a home-built Athlon 3700 box collecting dust (yay for breaking WoW addiction) Diskless would save some money, power and noise All frontends should be able to handle HD TVs Original Objectives: - Spend about 100 - 150 per frontend Please See Inline Notes For Changes After Mythbuntu 10.04 and 10.10 LTS Intall **.Since almost all of the MythTV documentation online talked about older hardware, it seemed like a great path. Therefore, I priced out some criagslist prices and found that I could save about 100-200 over the entire project by buying used computers. Again, in the interest of budget, we found that building our own frontends with new hardware (intel atom boxes) would cost about 200-250. Out of the entire package, we felt that losing DVR functionality was unacceptable, so thus started our MythTV journey. This meant buying whatever I could at decent prices off of craigslist.Īs part of keeping more of our paycheck (Thanks Dave Ramsey), we decided that we needed to get rid of DishTV. My Goal with this Wiki is to document the trials and tribulations of saving a few dollars on building a High Definition Capable MythTV system on a budget.
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