[mythtv-users] Multiple video sources and scheduling

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Fri Jun 9 23:49:37 UTC 2006


On 6/9/06, Paul Barker <myth at sixtimesnine.net> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I've just upgraded to FC5 / Myth 0.19 and am playing with getting my
> second tuner (Nova-S) working.
>
> I currently have two video sources defined:
>
> 1) SKY -> PVR250 - SVIDEO - SKY Digibox (with IR sender)
> 2) FREEVIEW -> Nova-S - DVB-S Free to air
>
> My question is concerns scheduling. I obviously have an overlap of
> available channels, the DVB-S card gets a subset (the free to air set)
> of the channels available on the PVR250. However if I'm recording from
> the PVR250 and I try to schedule a show which should be available from
> the Nova-S it just shows up as a conflict.
>
> Is there any clever channel setup I need to do (same channel number,
> name ? etc) to have Myth automatically know that this program is
> available on another source ?

you have to make sure the channels that "overlap" on both tuners have
the same channel information so that they actually show up as the same
or else you end up scheduling a recording on one tuner specifically.

-- 
Steve
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