Using GB-PVR without a PVR card. Possible?

[rbmcgee]

What I would like to do is confusing so I hope can explain it clearly.

Background:
Recently I discovered GB-PVR and am using it on my bedroom HTPC (WinTV PVR 150 and ir blaster to dish receiver). It works great and I love it. I use web admin and the enhanced plugin to access the bedroom HTPC/GB-PVR across the lan and schedule recordings from the office PC. I really love that. You all helped me set that up and I appreciate the help.

The situation (this has nothing to do with the bedroom HTPC):
Besides scheduling recordings on the bedroom HTPC, my office PC has its own USB-UIRT attached. Currently, I use Girder and Netremote to change channels on my satellite receiver across the room (in my office). This PC does not have any PVR card and/or software on it. In effect, I use the office PC as my remote control device. This works great, but I would like it to work better.

My desire:
I would like to be able to pull up a TV Guide, choose a program and have the TV guide blast the correct channel out the USB-UIRT and have it change the dish channel on the office receiver. I would love this TV guide to be the enhanced GB-PVR plugin TV guide however I see that “watch” is not an option in that tv guide (only “record” and “take no action”)

Note:
I use the WinTV supplied Ulead DVD factory to edit recordings on my office PC. In order to get Ulead loaded, I had to put the WinTV card into the PC, load the drivers, then load Ulead and then remove the PVR card. Ulead won’t load unless it sees the drivers. I figure I could place the card into the PC and then load and configure the irblaster software as well and then once again remove the card.

Bottom line:
Is this possible using GB-PVR (hopefully) or possibly some other solution?

[soccerdad]

You can use GBPVR without a tuner card but I am not sure if it would do what you want. You can install it and use it to watch your videos or listen to net radio, etc, but I don't know if you can use the TV guide without a tuner card. I am pretty sure you could set it up, but I think it looks for an available card. It may be that it just looks for an available setup and not the card itself. I don't think you even have to put the card in to set it up. Try it, what could it hurt? I have it installed on 2 other machines without cards just so I can get to net radio and the weather plugins easily.

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