using tivo to control a mysky decoder?
I've had a mysky box installed, which is nice in some ways. You gte two tuners, plus a hard drive.
But the usability of the tivo is much better, and I'm interested in using the tivo to drive the mysky box. (normally treating the mysky box as a standard sky decoder)
that way I get the nice ui and season pass features of the tivo, plus I can use the mysky box directly if I need to record a second programme at the same time.
I see from the list of supported decoders http://www.garysargent.co.uk/tivo/stb.htm
that there is a sky+ pace decoder. The front panel looks a little different, but the remote is the same. It's number 20017.
Has anyone else sucessfully done this? Is 20017 in the local tivo db (or the emulator)?
Fellow MySky and TiVo Owner
Hi,
I also have a MySky now after many happy years TiVo-ing. But the lure of the 2 channel recording was too great !
I kept my old Pace decoder and have my TiVo and that setup in Family Room while I have just MySky in main Lounge.
My first comment was to be that (different to you pointed out) you would not need to setup your first recording on MySky as the MySky's first recording (which would be your second) is done in the background anyway.
My main HELPFUL point is with regard to Remote Control's. After getting my MySky I was annoyed that I could no longer control TV Power and Volume from the single remote. That's before I was introduced to the Logitech Harmony range of Universal Remote's (I got the 520 model) - they are outstanding...I recommend them to anyone....Reasonably priced and they are fully configured over the Web. Logitech have IR codes for everything...All you do during setup is put in model numbers of all your devices, MySky, TV, Stereo, DVD Player etc... and set up Activities like "Watch MySky" and it changes all your device settings....It fully controls MySky (all functions) - you just have to map some MySky keys to buttons that make sense to you...eg: I have to press an "Exit" button to return MySky to live TV.
Anyway - sorry to talk about the "dark side" (MySky) on the TiVo forums...I still love my TiVo which is why I pay Sky (through the nose) to keep the old decoder to run TiVo. I still use TiVo for all my smart season passes based on Title etc...
That's my two cents for what it's worth.