[mythtv-users] Just added 2nd tuner on Secondary backend but it shows as not connected or unavailable?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 16:24:38 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Gerry Freymann <lists at interpool.ca> wrote:
>
>  Hello!
>
>  My second Hauppage PVR-150-MCE TV Tuner card just arrived and I was anxious
> to get it installed in the upstairs frontend/secondary backend so we'd have
> access to the dish in that location (in addition to the tuner card in the
> downstairs frontend/master backend).
>
>  After rebooting, I went into Myth Setup and went to capture cards, new
> capture card and switched it to MPEG-2 Encoder card. The video device field
> was already filled in, it detected the card ok.
>
>  For Video Sources... they were already defined.
>
>  On Input connections, I pointed the antenna source to the antenna input,
> and the Dish source to SVideo-1 input.
>
>  Seemed easy enough.
>
>  Now when I go to the System status screen via the web page I see:
>
>  Encoder status
>  Encoder 1 is local on mythtv and is not recording.
>  Encoder 2 is remote on living-room (currently not connected).
>
>  What's the trick to get it 'connected' and useable?
>
Is mythbackend running on the second box?

John


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