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Is it possible to have MythTV change the channel on my digital cable/satellite box, instead of my tuner card?

April 26, 2017Box cable channel digital MythTV possible satellite Tuner

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Is it possible to have MythTV change the channel on my digital cable/satellite box, instead of my tuner card?

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Yes. In the setup program, under “Input Connections”, you can configure a command to run whenever the channel needs to be changed on an input which does not have a tuner. In the 0.7 release, this was a global option in the configuration file, “ExternalChannelCommand”.