[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun & multirec

[James Orr]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 5:42 PM, James D. Goddard
<pubear at u.washington.edu>wrote:

> On 11/13/09 2:11 PM, "Richard Shaw" <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:07 PM, James Orr <james.orr7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I got my 0.22 installation done on Wednesday (not exactly painless, but
> it
> >> all worked out in the end).  I suddenly remembered I'm supposed to have
> >> multi-rec on my HDHR now!
> >>
> >> So, I went into mythtv-setup and found the option for number of
> recordings
> >> and I set that to 2 for both tuners to see what would happen.
> >>
> >> I checked my upcoming recordings schedule and I don't see any changes.
> >>
> >> So my first question is ... is there something else I need to do?
> >>
> >> And my second question is ... how can I see what channels are on the
> same
> >> thingy and eligible for simultaneous recording?
> >
> > For Multirec to work it needs to be on the same frequency but
> > different subchannels. In my case, the local PBS station is 10 and
> > they broadcast HD on 10.1 and SD on 10.2. Find something like this and
> > try and record whatever is on both channels. It should only tie up one
> > tuner instead of both.
> >
> > Richard
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> AFAIK, and if you are willing to look at the MySQL channels table, you can
> check the "mplexid" field.  I believe that any channels that have the same
> multiplexid should be able to be recorded on a single tuner.  This field,
> and the entire channels table is visible using mythweb, if you go to the
> channel editor portion of the settings.
>

Thanks!

My HDHR is handled by a slave backend and I had restarted that but not the
master.  After I restarted the master 4 new tuners popped up and it's now
going to record Heroes, House and How I Met Your Mother all at the same time
tonight!

I was a little bit worried about that as those channels are 8.1, 17.1 and
3.1 respectively and that didn't seem to match up with what Richard said but
when I checked the database I can see that 8.1 and 3.1 are on the same
multiplex so all is (or should be) well.

Thanks for adding this feature!
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