[mythtv-users] How to change which tuner record preference

[Michael T. Dean]

Bennett Leve wrote:

> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> Bennett Leve wrote:
>>
>>> I have two PVR-350 cards and both are setup using cable in.  If I am 
>>> watching a show and I use mytweb or another frontend to start a new 
>>> recording of a current show it pops me out of the show I am watching 
>>> and takes me to the channel that I want to record.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to have the recorder prefer the other tuner?
>>
>> No.  If it did, you'd be watching the other tuner.  But there is a 
>> way to fix the problem.
>>
>> Option a) In setup (General Settings):
>>
>> Avoid conflicts between live TV and scheduled shows.
>> If enabled, live TV will choose a tuner card that is less likely to 
>> have scheduled recordings rather than the best card available.
>
> This was actually checked off.  I wonder if the issue was that I went 
> in to start recording something that had already started?   My wife 
> was watching one show that she had paused on, and another show started 
> playing on the same channel that she did not want to miss.  So I 
> thought I could go in and start recording the second show that had 
> already started on the same channel and it kicked her out of her 
> paused program (she was not happy about this).    My thought was that 
> it know that the tuner she was watching live, which will always be the 
> one that displays was paused and would have started recording on the 
> second PVR-350.

All this option does is make sure that LiveTV uses the card with the 
lowest priority.  If you haven't explicitly assigned a priority (i.e. in 
the event of a tie), the lowest card number has the highest priority.  
Therefore, with this option selected (and assuming cardid's 1 and 2), 
LiveTV starts with card 2 and works down (i.e. watching LiveTV on 
another frontend would use card 1); however, recordings start with card 
1 and work up (i.e. the second concurrent recording uses card 2).

So, if you were recording something (on card 1) while watching LiveTV 
(on card 2) and you told it to record something else without stopping 
the recording on card 1 first, the only available card is card 2.  
There's code to warn the user and let him/her decide whether to continue 
LiveTV or to allow the recording, but it was broken for a while.  
Regardless, though, it doesn't matter because LiveTV has just been 
completely re-worked such that even in LiveTV, you're doing "normal" 
recordings (although they may not record complete programs and you don't 
have to set up schedules for them).

>> Option b) Don't watch LiveTV.  Record everything.  ;)
>
> I like this option, too bad she had not set it up to record both shows.

Yeah.  It takes a while to get others to see the benefit of recording.  
(Behold the power of MythTV...)

Mike