OK, today I decided I “have” to make a plan with all the wiring behind the Scaleo, the satellite STB (DSTV PVR), etc. Partly because I had to hook up the Scaleo properly to record, but also because the wires just irritated me.
So it took me most of a morning to remove all the unnessary wires and to connect up the Scaleo. Hooking up the Scaleo proofed to be a bit more difficult than I thought. I tried to hook up the RCA cables from the DSTV PVR to the front input Video and Audio in RCA connections of the Scaleo, but for some reason the TV image was jerky and stuttered a lot.
So I tried normal coax cables through the attenna connection of the Scaleo. For some reason MCE didn’t pick up the channels. I decided to give the RCA cables a go again, because this is my preferred method of connecting the DSTV PVR (even though the connections are in the front of the Scaleo – what were they thinking) . For some reason it worked perfectly this time and the TV image was good and didn’t stutter.
So finally I could remove all the old cables as well as my old HTPC from my living room. This all sounds so trivial now, but it took a lot of time to organise all the wires etc again.
I will post some pictures later.