[mythtv-users] Dual tuners with different channels

[David George]

On 12/7/2004 4:05 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote:

>I never got any responses from this question. Does anyone have any 
>experiences with a similar setup? Any ideas if this could be made to work?
>
>thanks,
>-Randy
>
>On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Randy Carpenter wrote:
>
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>>I am looking into the possibility of replacing the DVR from my cable 
>>company with a MythTV setup.
>>
>>I have Digital cable, so I would need to use a digital box, and control it 
>>via an IR Blaster.
>>
>>There are a couple questions I have about how this would work:
>>
>>1. Is there a way for MythTV to detect if the cable box power is on, and 
>>turn it on if necessary? Simply leaving the cable box on all the time is 
>>not necessarily an option, as sometimes the cable company uploads firmware 
>>upgrades, and that causes the box to reboot, and sometimes shutdown.
>>    
>>
It can't necessarily detect if the cable box is on.  Does your cable box 
have descrete codes for turning on and off or just a toggle code.  If 
descrete, you could just send the power on command as part of your 
channel changing script.

>>2. I want dual tuners, but don't want to hassle with 2 boxes. If I connect 
>>a digital box with an IR blaster (giving me channels 2-78 analog, and 
>>100-300+ digital), and I have a second tuner card with just analog cable 
>>(2-78) coming in, can MythTV be configured to handle this? Recording 
>>digital channels would need to default to the first tuner, but the first 
>>tuner would also need to be able to record analog stations, in the event 
>>that 2 analog stations needed to be recorded at the same time. I 
>>understand that I cannot have dual tuners on digital stations. This is ok, 
>>as I record very little from the digital stations.
>>    
>>
Yes, this can be done.  One caveat, if you are using DataDirect you will 
probably need to create two lineups.  One for the analog channels and 
one for the digital channels.  You may need to use different zipcodes 
(just use the next closest zip code to you) in order to create two cable 
lineups.

HTH,
David