Moxi HD Device

[ChaOConnor]

I got to thinking after reading about Dave Zats Moxi Install, "would this work in Sage"? The Moxi HD natively supports CableCard, no messing around. It records to an internal HD, but other Moxi Devices can see it. So in some way it exposes itself on the network, plus you can manage it via web so again, it's got a couple of ports open.

What I'm wondering is, if Sage could see the Moxi Device and we could use our extenders to pull the shows Moxi recorded and watch them like that?

I've been trying to find a good Moxi forum, seems like AVS is the best place right now. This is all hypothetical and probably wouldn't work, but it's got me thinking. Would love to try it out and see what I could hack together, but $499 is a bit much to try it out. ;-)

What's everyone's thoughts?

[stanger89]

I doubt it would work, I'm sure the protocol is proprietary.

[Fuzzy]

And in order to have gotten the cablelabs certification, that would require it to have teh files protected by DRM. Most likely even if you could spoof it to get it to start streaming something out, it wouldn't be usable by anyhtng but another Moxi. this is why sage just needfs to embrace that DRM is here, and implement some form themselves, so they can get cablecard (and potentially at some point, Dish or DTV card) support.

[Taddeusz]

The Moxi looks pretty sweet as far as CableCard support goes. If it weren't so darned expensive I would put serious consideration into replacing my PVR functionality in SageTV with Moxi. Having access to up to 3 recordings at a time via a single CableCard would be a sweet thing to have. It would considerably simplify my situation. But holy cow is the thing expensive!

Heck, having access to CableCard in SageTV would tremendously simplify things. We can only hope that the FCC's Broadband Plan has some teeth and can guide the cable industry to a more consumer and competition friendly environment.

[ChaOConnor]

Trudat Tad... trudat!