[mythtv-users] Multiple lineups with hdhomerun

Fred Squires fsquires at gmail.com
Wed May 27 19:15:01 UTC 2009


On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Fa <fayoeu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,  I want to be able to use my hdhomerun to record both digital cable
> channels AND HD broadcast.  I am using the comcast cable provider.
> Currently I have the tuner associated with the  "HD broadcast (OTA)"
> videosource, losing all the non-hd digital cable channels.  I know that in
> mythtv-setup I can associate it with a "digital cable" lineup and it will
> give me the digital cable lineup, but then I'll lose my HD channels.  How
> can I have both lineups associated with the same tuner??  I hope that I am
> missing something very obvious and I don't need to manually alter the DB.
>
> I followed the instructions here to setup the hdhomerun inside of myth:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HDHomeRun
>
> In particular, "Create a channel lineup and enable/disable channels based on
> channels listed in the Channel Editor in mythtv-setup. Note that MythTV uses
> the ATSC channel numbering as specified in the transport stream, not the
> remapped cable channel numbering so you will need to select OTA/Antenna as
> the source in Zap2it."

What you probably need to do is map the channels you receive over your
cable to the channels comcast says they are (the channel number
schedules direct has them listed as under digital cable).
For instance, in my area, Fox's HD station is broadcast on channel
45.1, comcast resends it over the cable as 45.1, but their cable boxes
list it as channel 213, and that's the channel it's listed as in
Schedules direct as well.
I believe the important part is the xmltvid, if that matches the
listings should come across properly (in the case of fox 45 HD it's
21233). I'm not 100% sure on this, I haven't had to deal with it yet,
but it's been discussed before on the list.


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