As some of you may know I have been on something of a quest to figure out what would be the best FTA receiver for me to buy when the weather gets a bit nicer, and I have pretty much decided that one of my absolute requirements is that programs recorded off the satellites can be viewed from other computers or Home Theater PC boxes on the local network - if I can't get that, I'll just keep my money in my pocket until I find a receiver that better fits my needs. But also, I'd very much like to be able to schedule upcoming recordings from other computers on the local network, possibly using a web interface, much as you would change settings on a router from another computer by going through a web interface.
In researching receivers that might allow this, I keep coming across some references to what I think are software programs that might be useful for that purpose, that either are bundled with certain receivers, or can be added later (I am not sure about that). But I can't seem to find good definitions that explain what these are, what they do, and how they relate to each other. They are Enigma2, Dreambox (not the receiver, but a piece of software called Dreambox or maybe Dreambox TV), and TuxBox. I assume the latter only runs on Linux-based receivers. Part of the problem is that searches on any of these turn up multiple items, many of which are not related to Satellite TV, or in the case of Dreambox, a satellite receiver with that name. Or you get terse and unhelpful explanations like "enigma2 is a framebuffer-based zapping application (GUI) for linux"
. But the scattered references I see here and there refer to these as if they are FTA satellite related programs, not hardware.
So can anyone point me to a good, clear explanation of what these pieces of software are and do (or if any of them are unicorns that only exist in my imagination, let me know)? Or, if you don't know of any good links and have the time, can you give me an overview of what these pieces of software do and how they are related to each other, if at all (for example, does a receiver need to be running one of these in order to run another)? I just find it really confusing because most of the references I see to these are in various forums (or in the case of Enigma2, in receiver specs) and I guess people in those forums just assume that everyone knows what those are. I don't think any of these are intended to facilitate the sort of thing we aren't supposed to discuss, but if by some off chance they are, that's not what I'm interested in.
TIA.
In researching receivers that might allow this, I keep coming across some references to what I think are software programs that might be useful for that purpose, that either are bundled with certain receivers, or can be added later (I am not sure about that). But I can't seem to find good definitions that explain what these are, what they do, and how they relate to each other. They are Enigma2, Dreambox (not the receiver, but a piece of software called Dreambox or maybe Dreambox TV), and TuxBox. I assume the latter only runs on Linux-based receivers. Part of the problem is that searches on any of these turn up multiple items, many of which are not related to Satellite TV, or in the case of Dreambox, a satellite receiver with that name. Or you get terse and unhelpful explanations like "enigma2 is a framebuffer-based zapping application (GUI) for linux"

So can anyone point me to a good, clear explanation of what these pieces of software are and do (or if any of them are unicorns that only exist in my imagination, let me know)? Or, if you don't know of any good links and have the time, can you give me an overview of what these pieces of software do and how they are related to each other, if at all (for example, does a receiver need to be running one of these in order to run another)? I just find it really confusing because most of the references I see to these are in various forums (or in the case of Enigma2, in receiver specs) and I guess people in those forums just assume that everyone knows what those are. I don't think any of these are intended to facilitate the sort of thing we aren't supposed to discuss, but if by some off chance they are, that's not what I'm interested in.
TIA.