[mythtv-users] Working out which tuner was used for which recording

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 15:35:28 UTC 2015


Hoi Stephen,

Wednesday, June 3, 2015, 5:07:24 PM, you wrote:

> On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:52:07 +0100, you wrote:


>>Tip: instead of getting the less-than-friendly /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 names 
>>displayed, I use udev to give my tuners more useful names:
>>
>>/dev/dvb/adapter-T-0/frontend0
>>/dev/dvb/adapter-T-1/frontend0
>>/dev/dvb/adapter-T2-0/frontend0
>>
>> From those and using the serial numbers in the udev rule I now know exactly 
>>which tuner is which. You have to leave certain strings such as 'adapter' in the 
>>name since mythtv-setup looks for those.

> That only works if you have useful things that the udev rules can
> differentiate on to allow you to set the names.  Unfortunately, that
> is not always the case - I think last time I looked, the only way I
> had to differentiate my AverTV tuner from my Nova-TD ones was the PCI
> and USB addresses, which will change if the card is moved to a
> different slot or the USB tuner is plugged into a different USB port.
> I would only want to use those to differentiate devices if I was
> desperate for a way to do it, which fortunately I am not.
> _______________________________________________

If they use different drivers? You can use DRIVERS==
But even if the PCI/USB ID is the only difference, it's better then
leaving it to chance, on who next time is fastest. In the past with
two audio-cards I had to force it by placing one in-kernel and the
other as a module ;(


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