[mythtv-users] Need to prevent SD source from picking up HD channels.

Karl Newman newmank1 at asme.org
Sat Nov 2 13:30:09 UTC 2013


On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:56 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org>
> wrote:
> > You need 2 lineups on SD, each dedicated to the channels which the
> > respective tuner can actually tune.
>
> That can't be done.
>
> > SD allows up to 4 distinct lineups.
>
> The keyword here is *distinct*.  As soon as you select a lineup, you
> can't select it again.  There's no way to have two Comcast of zip code
> 12345 lineups for a single Schedules Direct account.
>
> Eric
>

Yes, and I always thought that was a ridiculous restriction. The very fact
that you can customize the channels you want to get from the listing
implies that it should support multiple versions of that. The "official"
recommended myth way of dealing with it (that I've seen on this list) is
something like download the full list, delete the channels for the tuner
which can't access them, then re-download for the tuner which uses the full
list and then set the --remove-new-channels flag. I may be getting the
details wrong, but that method is fragile and prone to a lot of repeated
work when the channels change. I resorted to using another lineup from a
neighboring city which has essentially the same channel mapping.

Karl
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