[mythtv-users] PVR-250 and DirecTV

[Myth TV]

Sorry for new thread - on a different mailer.

Your answer depends partly on how you connected your satellite into the
PVR.  If you used the tuner input, during mythsetup there is an option to
keep the channel on that input to either 3/4.  In my setup, I use the
cable into the tuner input and my DirecTV into the composite input. As
there's no "channel" on composite, I tune the satellite tuner with the
onboard channel preselect on my sat receiver and the signal available on
the composite is what I want recorded.  You need to take the audio RCA
plugs into a RCA to 3.5 stereo plug but those are cheap and available at
any electronics shop.

Original message:

   I am having the opposite issue because I have connected the
computer to an external receiver, DirecTV.  How do I keep my PVR 250
on channel 4 (or 3 in my case)?  I don't have a transceiver set-up
with my computer to change channels on the DTV receiver.  For now, I
am changing channels directly on my DirecTV receiver.
   I have gotten MythTV to run (I can watch tv), but I cannot record
TV.  Everytime I try to schedule a recording, myth changes the tuner
(PVR-20) to XX channel and ends up recording snow/static.  Once that
happens, I end up re-running mythtvsetup, redoing /sbin/modprobe in
root because for some reason I lose sound, log-out, log-in as mythtv
user, and I re-start mythfrontend.  How do I set up mythtv so that it
does not change the PVR-tuner (keeps it on channel 3) so that I can
watch TV or record TV?  I would like myth to think that it changed
the channel to channel 12, 231, 292, 360 etc without actually doing
so.  

Help, anyone.

Thanks