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Got around trying MythTV.I still have many shows and episodes I saved with Freevo, on old hard drives somewhere. I tired for along time to get MythTV working with limited success. The Silicon Dust tuners were new at the time and support was spotty. I eventually gave up and used Windows MCE but it was limited to a single TV.I ended up replacing all of it with a 1st Gen TabloTV, Plex and a Roku. I'm still rocking that TabloTV today. There's something to be said for having an appliance that just works. Love mythtv. I've been using it since about 2003 or so. It was definitely a janky experience in the beginning, but once I was able to ditch needing an IR blaster it became an absolute pleasure to setup and use. I used MythTV for several years, until Comcast went digital in my neck of the woods, and my tuner card was useless. What do people tune to content with now? Is it all IR control of a cable box? I still use a cablecard with Comcast (in an HDHomeRun Prime), currently using ChannelsDVR as my DVR. the auto commercial skipping was the killer app feature of MythTV. Really enjoyed MythTV.Havn't looked at it; but, wish it would work with streaming services / on-demand. Channels DVR works with quite a few streaming services (via TV Anywhere) and does commercial skip too. I use it with YouTube.TV as well as Philo. My parents also pick up OTA with an HD HomeRun on their channels DVR.The downside to Channels (and to be fair, exact same with MythTV) is the homebrew nature. I had to set up and maintain it for them. But if you have the means to run one and you like traditional cable channel content still, nothing beats Channels.They also have AppleTV and Firestick clients further sweetening the deal. It's $80 a year - but if you have dealt with Tivo or any of the other commercial products out there, that's not a lot - and it directly funds development. And development on Channels is very active, as

I was always very impressed with MythTV. It was the first project that I saw that made really good use of versioning their mysql database with SQL queries to change the schema linked to the software version.I used it extensively. I obsessively recorded everything off over the air digital TV and wrote it to DVDs. I had a little script to look up ratings of movies in IMDB, apply weighting factors due to personal tastes and record all the ones which made the grade. I'd then edit the commercials out and burn to DVDs all losslessly.However, this all came to an end when my 2 year old son took the running hosepipe from the garden one summer, through the open patio doors into the house and proceeded to fill up the MythTV computer with water (along with the TV, VCR, DVD player and sofa!).I never quite had the heart to resurrect the system after that and it was an end to my MythTV obsession. It was fun while it lasted. Oh, the memory of my father's face, when I learned about and put into practice the command "format c:" Back in 2096 I had myth running on a cube shaped PC by my TV. It had one fan, with a fancy pipe work to shift heat from the processor.I got an email while I was at work on a night shift with a cou temperature increase. Sshed in and could see the temperature rising and rising. 70, 80, 90, 100 (c)Then my ssh command died.Finished work at 10am and started the 90 minute drive home, wondering if there’s be a home to sleep it. Fortunately on inspection it was the fan that failed. Everything had died, couldn’t get it to boot, and so ended my mythtv adventure.It was great, had a little usb box which plugged into my sky box and send remote control command to switch sky chal lens. A hardware mpeg2 pci capture card to record, etc.But for me it was a product of its time. I haven’t watched linear tv since 2016 except for a few special