[mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR questions

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 14:41:44 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Engel" <david at istwok.net>
>
>> The hostility in the past has been because the suggestions were to
>> save cardid/inputid. Those values can change when tuners are added,
>> removed or renumbered making them less useful. The input displaay
>> names can be more descriptive, so using them can solve the tuner
>> change problem. Of course, it's still up to the user to add
>> sufficiently descriptive names.
>
>And that's patently ridiculous: how often are tuners *actually* changed
>on production machines?  Every 3 or 4 years?
>
>Cheers,
>-- jra

That depends on your situation - mine have never been stable so far
for more than two years, due to changing technology and hardware
failures.  My mother's box has been more stable - it is probably three
years now since I added her third DVB-T tuner.