How do you get EIT data from an HDhomerun

General Schvantzkoph

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Mar 6, 2011, 10:03:13 AM3/6/11

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I have an HDhomerun tuner, connected to Verizon FIOS, and I have
hdhomerun_config installed on Fedora 14. Is there a way to get the EIT
(program guide) data from it? I've also played with a Hauppauge tuner,
using Me-tv, and it seems to display guide data without using schedules
direct so I'm pretty sure that there is EIT data on FIOS.

Bit Twister

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Mar 6, 2011, 11:48:30 AM3/6/11

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What application are you using for recording from the tuner that needs
the schedule.

General Schvantzkoph

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Mar 6, 2011, 1:21:36 PM3/6/11

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We are writing an application. I've given up on MythTV, I haven't been
able to get it to play with MySQL on Fedora and besides MythTV has a
horrible UI. Me-tv has a nice simple UI but it doesn't work with the
hdhomerun, only the Hauppauge. The hdhomerun is a vastly better piece of
hardware than the Hauppauge, it's much more reliable and has much better
performance. I played with the Hauppauge for a few weeks, at best it
produced jumpy video when it could do anything at all. Someone on this
forum suggested the HDhomerun which is Ethernet based. It works just fine
and they provide an open source Linux application, available as a Fedora
package, and an API.

My girlfriend has written a Web based UI which we have running on Apache.
I need to write a daemon that schedules video capture, that's the easy
part, and captures the schedule information so that it can be passed to
the Web UI. We will GPL it and create a Fedora package when we are done.

Bit Twister

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Mar 6, 2011, 4:38:11 PM3/6/11

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On 6 Mar 2011 18:21:36 GMT, General Schvantzkoph wrote:

> We are writing an application. I've given up on MythTV, I haven't been
> able to get it to play with MySQL on Fedora

Heheh, was not that hard to get it running on Mandriva Linux. 8-)

> and besides MythTV has a horrible UI.

Hmmm, I did a quick scan through
http://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/hdhomerun_development.pdf
and did not see the command to get EIT.

You might ask over on
http://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=16&sid=943636c7ce46de84f59f9ecee4191117

As a FYI, running two duals and when I enabled EIT in MYTHTV, packet
transmission went way up and slowed down the system. I turned it off.
No idea if MYTHTV was getting information fro different channels from
each tuner or had all tuners getting the same information.

General Schvantzkoph

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Mar 6, 2011, 8:42:41 PM3/6/11

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On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:38:11 +0000, Bit Twister wrote:

> On 6 Mar 2011 18:21:36 GMT, General Schvantzkoph wrote:
>
>> We are writing an application. I've given up on MythTV, I haven't been
>> able to get it to play with MySQL on Fedora
>
> Heheh, was not that hard to get it running on Mandriva Linux. 8-)
>
>> and besides MythTV has a horrible UI.
>
>
> Hmmm, I did a quick scan through
> http://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/hdhomerun_development.pdf and did
> not see the command to get EIT.
>
> You might ask over on
> http://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewforum.php?
f=16&sid=943636c7ce46de84f59f9ecee4191117

I've got a thread on their forums and I've also posted to another thread
about the Linux DVB driver which doesn't seem to be buildable on Fedora.