[mythtv-users] Schedule recording on prefered channel
Bruce Markey
bjm at lvcm.com
Mon Jan 8 08:31:02 UTC 2007
Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> john doe wrote:
>> I am having a hard time scheduling a recording on my prefered channel. I
>> live in the middle of 2 broadcast areas, so I have the same shows at the
>> same time on channels 2,3 and 4,5 and 7,8. From the guide, I selected a
>> show on channel 3, and said record any time on this channel. When I save
>> settings and go back out to the guide, it shows that it will record on both
>> channel 2 and 3. I only have one tuner card, so it records only on 2, which
>> has the less quality signal. I have tried every way I could think of to
>> remove and replace the recording, is there a way that I can get it to record
>> on channel 3 instead of channel 2. This is with mythtv0.19. Thanks
>>
> I believe in the channel editor of mythtv-setup you can give channels
> priorities so it will pick one over the other. Because these share a
> callsign, Myth currently treats them as pretty much identical. If you
> can't find it in mythtv-setup, check your channel table in the database
> to see if there is a priority value you can change manually.
Good answer. However, in addition to setting the priorities
from the Channel Editor in mythtv-setup, in mythfrontend you
can go to TV Settings->Recording Peroirities->Set Channel
Recording Priorities. All the channels are on one screen and
you can change the value by simply pressing the right and left
arrow keys.
I would recommend that if two channels carry the same station,
you should lower the less preferred channel by one. So, leave
channel 3 at 0 and set channel 2 to -1. Before doing so, you
should read and understand this section in the HOWTO:
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-12.html#ss12.6
This should give you a better understanding of how this works
and why and may answer your next questions before finding that
you need to ask them =).
-- bjm
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