Silicondust HDHomeRun

HDHomeRun

More Information

• Silicondust HDHomeRun
• Official HDHomeRun Forum (hosted by silicondust.com) Official HDHomeRun Forum
• HDHomeRun Forum (hosted by 9thtee.com) HDHomeRun Forum

Where to Buy?

• $169.00, free shipping (as of 21 NOV 2007) cyberestore.com
• $169.00 + shipping (as of 21 NOV 2007) 9thtee.com
• $169.00 + shipping (as of 21 NOV 2007) PC_Alchemy
• $169.00 + shipping (as of 21 NOV 2007) Mythic.TV
• approx. $169.00 + shipping (as of 21 NOV 2007) eBay
• $149.99 + shipping (as of 24 AUG 2008) Sundial Micro

Overview

Watch over-the-air digital & unencrypted digital cable TV from all computers in your home network

Dual tuners - record/watch multiple channels at once

IR Receiver - use most standard remotes to signal your PC

Compatible With:

   * Windows Media Center:
         o MCE 2005 (beta).
         o Vista MCE 32-bit (beta).
         o Vista MCE 64-bit (beta). 
   * SnapStream BeyondTV (beta)
   * SageTV - DVR for Windows.
   * MediaPortal - DVR for Windows (beta).
   * GB-PVR - DVR for Windows (beta).
   * MythTV - DVR for Linux.
   * Pluto - Home automation & media system.
   * VLC - Multi-platform media viewer. 

Detailed Specifications:

   *  8-VSB (ATSC over-the-air digital HDTV)
   *  QAM64/256 (unencrypted digital cable TV)
   *  Dual HDTV Tuners
   *  IR Receiver (38kHz)
   *  100baseTX high speed network

Package Includes:

   *  Networked Digital HDTV Tuner
   *  Power supply
   *  7' RJ45 Patch Cable

Configuring

If you have your LinuxMCE core configured as your DHCP server, it will detect a new HDHomeRun and prompt you to scan for channels. If you are using Schedules Direct, mythfilldatabase will automatically fill in scheduling data for over-the-air (antenna) inputs. But 99.9% of cable systems do not have the types of channel mappings which MythTV can use to set up listings for you, in that case you will need to manually set the channum and XMLTVID for each channel to match those reported by the Schedules Direct channel editor. The HDHomeRun QAM channel database may be helpful for this step, see here.

Comcast Qam

In an effort to automate or semi automate xmlid gathering for QAM stations I have found the following tools and finally have approx 90 qam stations with full XMLID's

I will use this to try to document the process.

The information was gathered form the following links

      * https://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5953&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=45
      * http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Comcast_Users_And_scte65scan
      * http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Comcast_Users_And_scte65scan#How_to_determine_VCT_ID_using_a_Full_Set_Top_Box
      * http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/408359

You will need.:

      * http://download.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/libhdhomerun_20091024.tgz
      * http://scte65scan.sourceforge.net/

Download and extract:

      * http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=262652
      * Under the scte65-0.21 directory extract http://download.silicondust.com/hdhomerun    /libhdhomerun_20091024.tgz

Edit Makefile and compile:

      * In the scte65scan directory Edit Makefile.hdhr:
      *  Add this line near the top:
      *  LIBOBJS += $(HDHR_DIR)/hdhomerun_os_posix.o
      *  And change the LDFLAGS line a few lines down so that it looks like this:
      *  LDFLAGS += -lpthread -lrt