[mythtv-users] source being ignored?

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Fri Apr 7 13:16:24 UTC 2006


On 4/5/06, Michael Freeman <mlfreeman at gmail.com> wrote:
> i just trimmed down ~90% of the QAM channels off my mythtv list (not worth
> getting, encrypted, etc).
> now it appears that myth has basically ignored that feed...there are only 5
> channels left in it that i want
>
> my local fox is one of them...i also have an OTA card and a PVR500, so I'd
> expect to see sunday's simpsons and monday's 24 listed 3 times in either
> mythfrontend or mythweb's upcoming recordings screens (once per source)
> however i now only see the OTA and analog sources listed, unless i go into
> recording priorities and manually push the QAM fox channel up and leave the
> others all equal (when i did that, all my recordings set to run on FOX
> shifted ot the QAM channel by default..but i now could see the fox
> recordings three times on mythweb's upcoming recordings page).
>
> (did this make sense? i hope so)
>
> what happened? why did i have to tweak a channel's recording priority to get
> myth to acknowledge that it even existed as a possible source of recordings?
> i've never had to do anything like this until i pruned down the unwanted
> channels off my digital listings.

did you change the priority of that tuner, perhaps by accident? Is the
channel number the same for the two sources? It will only show once
instance of a channel no matter how many sources have the channel.

--
Steve


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