[mythtv-users] Two tuners showed up

[Stephen Atkins]

On 8/5/2011 5:24 PM, Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 6 August 2011 00:19, Stephen Atkins<satkins at inetdesign.org>  wrote:
>> I rebuilt my master backend.  Once the DB was restored from the original
>> I deleted all capture cards (both local and on remote backends) since I
>> switched cards to different versions.
>>
>> When I created the HVR-1600 which is on the master, it seems to have
>> created two instances of it.  So cardid 17 and cardid 18 both point to
>> the same device.  But when I manage the cards in the mythtv-setup it
>> only shows one.  If I change something (like time to wait for a signal)
>> it changes both of them in the database.  In MythWeb it shows both of
>> them.  I'm just wondering what might happen if I manually delete #18?
>> Is there any other tables that might need cleaning up after this?
>
> Sounds like the expected behaviour when you have configured a digital
> tuner with multirec set for 2 (the default if you don't explicitly
> change the setting) concurrent recordings. Nothing to worry about.
>
> Both "virtual" tuners share the same physical tuner, hence the reason
> why changing tuning parameters affects all entries associated with the
> physical tuner.
>

Thanks for the quick response.  That's what it is.  Just need to turn 
off that second virtual card as the 1600 can't do two digital's at once.

Thanks again.

-- 
Stephen Atkins
VE6CPU/VE6CIC