Category Archives: Technology

Do you remember that I had bought a Logitech Harmony 885 universal remote-control? Wlel, I finally got around to trying to configure it last night, only to discover that two of its buttons on the right side didn’t work. Do … Continue reading →

Another day, another MythTV experience. I spent most of yesterday afternoon and evening coding my new TV programme data grabber. This one grabs programme timetable information from Chello, which is the name of UPC‘s cable TV (and cable Internet) offering. … Continue reading →

Another week has gone by and a few more hours of sleep have been grabbed at various intervals. In the intervening time, work has continued on the interminable odyssey that is the MythTV box. The major breakthrough came earlier this … Continue reading →

Picture quality on the MythTV is now a lot better. I had been ignoring the transcoder configuration options of the front-end, because my tuner cards, PVR-350 cards, do the MPEG2 encoding in hardware. However, it tuns out that the transcoder … Continue reading →

I’ve made a lot of progress on the MythTV box on the last few days. Firstly, I didn’t trust the SCART to S-Video/2 x RCA cable that I’d bought, suspecting that it may be wired to have SCART be the … Continue reading →