[mythtv-users] Disabling channels on dual tuner system

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Tue May 31 14:52:08 UTC 2005


Barry Jett wrote:

>Would anyone have a suggestion on disabling a channel from ever 
>being selected on a dual tuner 18.1 mythbox ?
>
>I have a PVR-250 (sourceid 1) and a  FIREWIRE from a Motorola 6200
>(sourceid 3) setup using a single Zapit account. The 250 can access a
>subset of channels .... (<60)  while the Firewire can access all
>channels.
>
>I could use 2 accounts, but that seems wasteful. Mythfilldatabase
>will load channels 2-930 on both inputs. Deleting the unwanted channels
>on input 1 doesn't work...they are reloaded on the next mythfilldatabase
>run.
>
>I've set  the recpriority field on sourceid 1 to -99 for the unwanted
>channels and that works just fine...but I bet there is a way to
>totally disable a  channel on a specific input.
>  
>
I believe you can create a second zap2it lineup under your single 
account and select/deselect the channels you want for each.

Kevin


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