The next step.....

Ok, so the DVBlink setup is solid enough now, after extensive testing. Even my girlfriend no longer complains about it, so it must be working well ;-)

Currently there is 2* 1080p screens hooked up to htpc, a 52" (living room) and a 26" in office (testing). There is 2 * xbox 360 as extenders, in master bedroom and sunroom connected via HD powerlines.

My next plan was to get a 2nd hd pvr and move the sky box from sunroom to office, then having both sky boxes & hdpvr connected to htpc & served out via media center.

I've decided to more adventurous, I purchased a dreambox s500!!

Very cheap off eBay in fairness, but there is a steep learning curve to say the least.

Once tweaked, the dreambox is capable of card sharing, so with one sky card, I can feed signal to multiple clients.

There has been some limitations that kept me away from getting into this, which have been resolved recently afiak, updating the sky card encryption.

Anyhoo, I havnt even got root access yet to the dreambox , so this will take a while.

Stay tuned for my progress.







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ITV1 HD FreeSAT in W7MC

Finally got ITV1 HD on W7MC via my DVB-S Tuner

http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/t/87779.aspx?PageIndex=7

you'll need this:

http://www.mediafire.com/?dz4vzhzoynd

GimmeITVHD.zip

Just in time for the World Cup!

Demo of Sky HD in W7MC

Sky Movie Channel PIN entry - RESOLVED

At last, finally got around to getting this sorted with plenty help from the DVBlink forum.

So as you know, sky has PIN protection on movie channels pre-water shed,

which is a pain and will limit your movie recording via media center to after that time only.

No any longer ;-)

First, go thru the epg menus and ENABLE pin protection on all move channels,

there is a setting to do this, so anytime for all movie channels you will require PIN.

This makes it easier then to automate the PIN entry script.

I added this to my channel-change.cmd hook for use with DVBlink

here it is:

:: Change directory to the location of this CMD file.

pushd %~dp0

:: Print some debugging info in a log file named after this CMD file

FOR /f "tokens=*" %%G IN ('date /t') DO set CURDATE=%%G

FOR /f "tokens=*" %%G IN ('time /t') DO set CURTIME=%%G

echo [%CURDATE% %CURTIME%] %~n0 %* >> %~n0.log

"sky-control.exe" --sky+ --channel %1

for %%i in (301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339) do (

if "%%i" == "%1" (

C:\"Program Files (x86)"\DVBLogic\DVBLink\Data\HDPVR\hooks\sky-control.exe --sky+hd 5CCB 5CCB 5CCB 5CCB 5CCB 5C09 5C01 5C09 5C04

echo Movie channel FINISHED! sending PIN >> %~n0.log

)

)

:: TODO Check ERRORLEVEL returned by the tuning software

if '%ERRORLEVEL%'=='0' goto :END

goto :ERROR

:: Jump here with a GOTO to report an error

:ERROR

echo Error changing channel, ERRORLEVEL=%ERRORLEVEL% >> %~n0.log

exit 1

:: Jump here with a GOTO for a success

:END

echo Channel changed successfully >> %~n0.log

exit 0

5C09 5C01 5C09 5C04 is my pin, see here to get urs:

http://www.dusky-control.com/sky-control-codes.shtml