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

Stefan Jones stefan_jones at comcast.net
Sat Nov 2 14:33:58 UTC 2013


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl Newman" <newmank1 at asme.org>
> To: "Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 2, 2013 6:30:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Need to prevent SD source from picking up
> HD channels.
> 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.
I discovered last night that Schedules Direct had a county-wide lineup and a city lineup with identical channels. (Well, maybe the community access channels are different.) This let me effectively add the same lineup twice. I'll edit the channel maps for each to match the box they're feeding. 
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