[mythtv-users] HomeRun Dual when recording ONE chan can't change to another?

[Joseph Fry]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Lee Maisel <maisel at lobo.net> wrote:

> Hi Joseph!
>
> Can you please elaborate on how and where I would set that up?  I now have
> 3 HD HomeRun Dual tuners. (6 tuners)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Lee
>
>
> Joseph Fry wrote:
>
>>
>>         Just wondering where I went wrong.
>>
>>         If a program is recording on one channel, for some reason I
>>         can't change to another, even though it's a dual tuner.
>>         Change channel, it jumps back to the program currently being
>>         recorded.
>>
>>         I have it setup according to the documentation on MythTV wiki
>>         regarding the HomeRun Dual tuner.
>>
>>
>>     If you have configured virtual tuners and your LiveTV session
>>     happens to land on a virtual that shares the same physical, you
>>     can't change to anything other than what that tuner is locked
>>     into. You need to change tuner using "C" (default key) and switch
>>     to another tuner.
>>
>>
>> There are various settings you can make to set the priority for
>> recording/live tv on your tuners as well.  I have 5 tuners, they are set
>> with recording priority from 1-5 and live tv priority from 5-1... so
>> essentially if I go into live TV it uses tuner 5, and my recordings try to
>> use the lowest numbered tuner available.  With just 2 tuners, it's harder
>> because often the scheduler will need to make use of the second tuner for
>> various reasons.
>>
>>
Please avoid top posting (put your reply's below the quoted content).

Anyway, in mythtv-setup, when you are mapping sources to tuners, there is
an option to set the recording priority and the livetv priority.  I'm
pretty sure it was there in 0.24?

Essentially when entering livetv it will choose the tuner with the lowest
livetv priority; if you set the livetv priority to 0 that tuner will not be
available when entering livetv.  The same goes for the recording priority.

Are you running 3 HDHR Prime's with cable cards, or are you using QAM, or
ATSC?  I only ask because if you have 6 physical tuners, you could have 2
or 3 times that with virtual tuners (unless they are Prime's with CC's),
that many tuners may influence the way I'd set the priorities, so I won't
make any recommendations.
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