junk_inbox at verizon
Jul 23, 2009, 12:50 PM
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:14 PM, drew einhorn <drew.einhorn[at]gmail.com>wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Jeff<junk_inbox[at]verizon.net> wrote:
> > The only time you'd 'have' to use UHF on a dish receiver is if it didn't
> > have IR receivers, or the 2nd tuner on a dual-tuner box - but that would
> be
> > less-than-optimal anyways as the 2nd tuner only has RF output from what I
> > remember. :-(
>
> Depends on the model the dish vip 722, tv2 has composite/analog audio out,
> in addition to the rf output.
Well, composite is better than RF output... ;-) I don't think the 2nd
tuner can be set to work with IR, but if it can, you're all set. (I think
if you set it to codeset 1 through 9 it still will only respond to them if
received via UHF, but I'm not positive...)
> the 522 also has a dvr that really sucks. I'm building a myth box
> to take over the dvr functions.
The 510 isn't horrible, but nowhere near as nice as MythTV. So I'm using it
as a simple tuner for Myth as well. ;-)
(I used to have 3 DishPlayer 7200's with Dish for the first 5 years of my
service - awesome PVRs for their time.)
Don't see much in the wiki about dish network.
There is a page about Dish LIRC configuration - I reference it below.
> Any more advice or comments about dish network, configuration,
> hardware, software, etc.?
> Drew Einhorn
>
I currently use 3 Dish receivers (A 510 'pvr', 3800 and 3900) with my
MythTV system, feeding S-Video and Analog audio into Hauppauge tuner cards
(A PVR-500 and a PVR-250). I control them with one instance of LIRC, and
each box set to a different IR codeset.
The wiki page below has a good writeup on using LIRC with Dish receivers,
which can be set up to 16 different IR codesets. I use this with my setup,
with one LIRC instance with 3 'blaster' eyes (a home-made buffered blaster
based on the one on the lirc.org site), and each receiver set to a different
code. (I use Codes 1, 6 and 9)
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/DISHNetworkLIRCConfiguration
The only change that I think I had to make to this file was that my dish
receivers used a frequency of 40000, not 56000. (IIRC, They would not
respond at 56Khz, and I verified with an oscilloscope that the real carrier
frequency of a standard dish remote was 40Khz)
I'd be happy to share my channel-change scripts, etc to help you out.
(Gee, maybe I should create a wiki page and/or update the page above? -
There's a thought...)
J-e-f-f-A
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