I didn't explain my intentions very well.

I've got a tivo set up and going, and have had for some time. For complicated reasons I find myself with a MySky box instead of a standard Pace decoder.

What I want to do is have the tivo between the mysky box and the TV set. What I would normally do is set up recordings on the tivo, as it has better guide data, and a better UI than the mysky box, and it gets me down to single remote control. I want to use the tivo to control the mysky box as if was a standard decoder.

In addition to that, I thought that there would be the occasional time when I would also set up a recording directly on the mysky box using it's guide data and storage. This would usually be when I wanted to record two shows on at the same time. (or maybe when I ran out of space on the tivo).

If I set up this 2nd recording in real-time, then I accept that I would be recording all the screen flows of the mysky box onto the tivo. But I would plan to set up both recordings in advance. The mysky box would record one channel onto it's hard drive, while it would think that I was changing the channel to watch something else on the other tuner (but this would actually be the tivo recording it).

As far as I can tell, this should work.But maybe I'm wrong.

Anyway, I'm using the irslicecreator tools to try and capture the mysky IR codes. I can capture, but as yet I've not been able to find a frequency that works. The tools are a bit shonky, so I have to restart the tivo fairly regularly. I'm definetly outputting something from the tivo, as I can see the IR LEDS flash through my digital camera - but the mysky box is not recognising it yet.

I will persevere.