[mythtv-users] Using two EPG sources - XMLTV for TV and EIT for radio on DVB

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/07/2012 04:19 PM, Joe Nyland wrote:
> On 7 Mar 2012, at 14:04, John Veness wrote:
>
>> On 07/03/2012 13:19, Simon Hobson wrote:
>>> joenyland at me.com wrote:
>>>> Whilst reading through the list today, I noticed that John Veness
>>>> said that he was using EIT for radio station listings and at the
>>>> same time using XMLTV for TV listings:
>>> ...
>>>> I know this may seem a very basic question to everyone on the list,
>>>> but I'd appreciate your help.
>>> Just setup your TV channels for XML-TV (use EIT unticked, xmltv-id
>>> entered), and setup the radio channels for EIT (use EIT ticked,
>>> xmltv-id blank).
>>>
>>> And make sure one of your tuners has the (something like) "Use for
>>> EIT" box ticked.
>>>
>>> It "just works".
>> Yes, you can set this up in either mythtv-setup, or as Martin Moores
>> also says, mythweb is probably easier. As well as for radio channels,
>> you can also use EIT on a few TV channels for which RT don't provide
>> listings.
>>
>> Just make sure that you don't have any channels which have *both* an
>> XMLTVID defined and useonairguide ticked. Although it sounds like a nice
>> idea, using XMLTV to get 14-day listings, and EIT to deal with last
>> minute changes, in practice Myth isn't designed to work with this setup,
>> and you'll find that some programs don't get recorded (or others get
>> recorded twice, or similar problems) due to the differences between the
>> XMLTV and EIT listings.
> Thank you for your replies - I'm having a look into it now.
>
> I'm still not 100% sure how to setup separate 'Radio' and 'TV' groups of channels, as you describe.
>
> I've setup a new 'Video source' which is set to use EIT, which is alongside my current RadioTimes XMLTV source.
>
> I'm a bit confused what to do next. Can anyone offer any pointers?

If radio and TV channels use the same tuner (are connected to the same 
input), you will need a single MythTV video source.  EIT can be disabled 
on a video source as a whole, or on individual channels within a video 
source.  You'll want the latter approach, so that you can configure some 
channels (TV channels) with an XMLTV ID and with EIT disabled, and other 
channels (radio channels) with no XMLTV ID and with EIT enabled.

You can use MythTV's "Channel Groups" to limit which ones are visible to 
you in the EPG or when browsing channels in Live TV.

Mike