GazingSouth Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Finally completed building an automated systyem to upload ICE guide, and this morning at 3am it updated the guide with zero interaction from me. System consists of: small standalone PC - like this one: http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjr/index.html USBUIRT to turn the PVR on, press OK to connect the USB port and then turn it off when completed And a timer switch to turn the PC on at 3am. All works well and now it's setup shouldn't require any interaction from me..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doobie1 Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Finally completed building an automated systyem to upload ICE guide, and this morning at 3am it updated the guide with zero interaction from me.System consists of: small standalone PC - like this one: http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjr/index.html USBUIRT to turn the PVR on, press OK to connect the USB port and then turn it off when completed And a timer switch to turn the PC on at 3am. All works well and now it's setup shouldn't require any interaction from me..... Hi Geoff (this is the other Geoff but remember I'm better looking !!) I presume your PC is close to your PVR or have you set up cables thru the walls/ceiling etc. What about costing...was it reasonable price to setup, thinking is it worth doing?? Doobie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dischucker Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 Finally completed building an automated systyem to upload ICE guide, and this morning at 3am it updated the guide with zero interaction from me.System consists of: small standalone PC - like this one: http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjr/index.html USBUIRT to turn the PVR on, press OK to connect the USB port and then turn it off when completed And a timer switch to turn the PC on at 3am. All works well and now it's setup shouldn't require any interaction from me..... What OS are you running? If Linux, what distro? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazingSouth Posted January 28, 2007 Author Share Posted January 28, 2007 :-) The automated PC is close to the PVR- has to be for the USBUIRT which has a limited length cable. I'm lucky enough to have wired the house for cat-5 some time ago so running network from there to rest of the network was easy. The PC I purchased also has a wireless option... The OS I'm running is XP (for now) - however you can get it preconfigured with puppyOS - which when I researched it looked good for running the PC without a HDD (it comes with a CF slot) 3 reasons I didn't go the linux route... 1 - the USBUIRT drivers are already written for WindowsXP - there are some attempts to get it running under linux with mixed results 2 - the ICE converter was written on Windows. 3 - I had a spare notebook HDD with XP on it that fits nicely in the Microclient Jr. The cost - I really can't remember as I purchased the HW over a period of time. The good thing is that I can reuse all the HW I purchased on other things if I change PVR's..... Geoff Hi Geoff (this is the other Geoff but remember I'm better looking !!)I presume your PC is close to your PVR or have you set up cables thru the walls/ceiling etc. What about costing...was it reasonable price to setup, thinking is it worth doing?? Doobie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dischucker Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 [snip]3 reasons I didn't go the linux route... 1 - the USBUIRT drivers are already written for WindowsXP - there are some attempts to get it running under linux with mixed results 2 - the ICE converter was written on Windows. 3 - I had a spare notebook HDD with XP on it that fits nicely in the Microclient Jr. [snip] My Perl EPG converter works under Linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m8e Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 I presume your PC is close to your PVR or have you set up cables thru the walls/ceiling etc. Hi all, I'm new here, bought a MediaStar 3 days ago, thanks to advice gleaned from this forum. I haven't tried EPG yet, but will soon. I have a PC in the same room as my MediaStar but I need at least a 10M cable. USB spec says no longer than 5M per cable For a USB extension I was thinking about one of these... http://www.usbdesigns.com/ http://www.everythingusb.com/hardware/USB_...ance_extension/ Anybody found any other alternatives for extending USB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temporary1 Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 I have a PC in the same room as my MediaStar but I need at least a 10M cable...... USB spec says no longer than 5M per cable What you probably want is to use an Active USB extender. These are 5m cables you can get from DSE XH8199(jaycar XC4839 etc...). You can chain up to 5 of these together and still get USB2 speeds. Those cat5 extenders are really (really) slow. OK for just the EPG, but if you ever want to burn a program to disk you will regret it (talking many hours to move a file rather than minutes). A 5m normal cable and one of those might work... If it doesnt then go back and buy a 2nd active cable, about $25-30 each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m8e Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Those cat5 extenders are really (really) slow. OK for just the EPG, but if you ever want to burn a program to disk you will regret it (talking many hours to move a file rather than minutes). A 5m normal cable and one of those might work... If it doesnt then go back and buy a 2nd active cable, about $25-30 each. Great, thanks for that advice, I will try it with one active 5m and one passive cable. I do want to burn programs to disk so USB2 speed is important. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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