Home-Grown TiVo Stories?

PolyDwarf writes "I'm in the process of figuring out how I'm going to build a homegrown TiVo machine (i.e. a computer sitting next to or in my home electronics stack). My question for is "What's worked best for you?" Most solutions I've researched are great if you have regular cable. However, satellite systems and digital cable boxes seem to present a special challenge, in that the software on the PC needs to know about an IR connector that is then hooked up to the front of the digital cable/satellite box. Who has done a solution like what I'm researching? What cases/processors/memory/TV Card/IR transceiver/OS/software/etc worked out for you? Did the end result justify the pain and hassle?"

Comments

start with the right OS

[Anonymous Coward]

The first thing to do is to start with a BSD-based OS. Then you don't have to worry about GPL infection.

Morons

[Anonymous Coward]

You assholes just to to skip the commercials and put the tv companies out of business. Would you rater you had to pay a tax like the BBC instead of them being broadcast for free? You greedy bastards are going to ruin it for everyone!

Liberated

[Gonoff]

I do not want to liberated to the sort of society that GWB and his rich friends want to run.

I do not want liberated to having the DMCA imposed in me.

I do not want liberated so that anyone on the bus or train next to me could be carrying a firearm.

I do not want to be liberated so that my country no longer has a National Health Service or any other parts of a welfare state.

Go ahead and liberate the people opressed by unelected dictators but don't assume that we want to live in a society like yours afterwards.

Dude! You got herpes.

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude! You got herpes.