[mythtv-users] Capture Card Priority

[Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)]

Ian,

I only have

         chanid  int(10)  UNSIGNED No  0
         channum  varchar(5)   No
         freqid  varchar(10)   Yes  NULL
         sourceid  int(10)  UNSIGNED Yes  NULL
         callsign  varchar(20)   No
         name  varchar(64)   No
         icon  varchar(255)   No  none
         finetune  int(11)   Yes  NULL
         videofilters  varchar(255)   No
         xmltvid  varchar(64)   No
         recpriority  int(10)   No  0
         contrast  int(11)   Yes  32768
         brightness  int(11)   Yes  32768
         colour  int(11)   Yes  32768
         hue  int(11)   Yes  32768
         tvformat  varchar(10)   No  Default
         commfree  tinyint(4)   No  0
         visible  tinyint(1)   No  1
         outputfilters  varchar(255)   No
         useonairguide  tinyint(1)   Yes  0
         mplexid  smallint(6)   Yes  NULL
         serviceid  smallint(6)   Yes  NULL
         atscsrcid  int(11)   Yes  NULL


fields in my channel table - cant see chanpiority ?

M.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Trider" <iantri at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 5:28 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Capture Card Priority


> On Apr 6, 2005 8:57 AM, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
> <michael-mlists at cheshire.id.au> wrote:
>>
>> Guys,
>>
>> Is there a setting that will make myth use one card as a priority before 
>> it
>> uses another?
>
> I have a similar issue -- I have two cards, one tuning from an
> antenna, one inputting from a satelliteI pull in (via antenna) locals
> in Buffalo, NY and Toronto, ON.  They are in very different
> directions, so I need to use an antenna rotor to make the Buffalo
> stations come in.  Satellite has the same channels on it. Because it
> is difficult to predict whether the antenna will be tuned correctly at
> any given time, I have set the 'chanpriority' in the channels table of
> the mythtv database higher (i.e. 3 or 4) on the Buffalo channels on
> satellite.
>
> MythTV recognizes stations with identical callsigns to be the same, so
> increasing the chanpriority causes it to prefer recording Buffalo
> stations from satellite, unless it is otherwise occupied -- it will
> then switch to antenna (possibly not pointed in the right direction,
> but better than nothing).
>
> If you set 'chanpriority' on the channels coming in through the DVB-T
> card to higher than that of the chanpriority of channels coming in
> through the set-top box, it should rather record from the DVB-T card
> unless it can avoid it.
>
> Untested SQL for doing this (WARNING!  COULD BORK YOUR DATABASE IF IT
> ISN"T QUITE RIGHT!)
>
> UPDATE channel SET chanpriority=5 WHERE sourceid=42;
>
> .. put the sourceid of your DVB-T card in where I've put '42'.
>
> -- 
> Ian Trider
> iantri at gmail.com
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