[mythtv-users] adding HDHR to system

[Greg Oliver]

On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 12:07 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 2/26/19 5:55 PM, Jim Abernathy wrote:
> > Last project was eliminating my HDHR Quatro and replacing it with a
> > Hauppauge WinTV Quad.
> >
> > That is complete and I'm using XMLTV sdjson_sqlite grabber.  At this
> > point I'm stable, but on occasions I'm recording on all 4 channels of
> > the WinTV and thought about adding the Quatro back for Live TV only.
> >
> > I can use the HDHomerun Viewer to watch live tv on the Quatro, but
> > it's not integrated with Mythtv.
> >
> > So my question is can I add the Quatro back into mythtv using the
> > Blackbox external recorder, mythhdhrrecorder, and still use my exiting
> > EPG database I setup for the WinTV using tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite. I
> > don't want to screw up my exiting recordings or pending recordings.
> > Can I setup the mythtvhdhrrecorder to use my existing SD XMLTV source
> > or do I have to have a new video source just for the mythhdhrrecorder???
> >
> > Jim A
> >
> I did some experimenting and I found that you can NOT just add a
> mythhdhrrecorder tuner and have it use the existing Video Source used by
> other tuners (WinTV QuadHD). It fails on open.
>
> So my question: Is there a requirement that each Capture Card have its
> own separate Video Source defined even if each Video Source is using
> SchedulesDirect XMLTV sdjson grabber_sqlite? My assumption is a 4 tuner
> card would use the same video source for all 4 tuners. Possibly if you
> had 2 exact same model Capture Cards then they they might use the same
> Video Source.
>
> Are there any hard and fast rules on when you can use the same video
> source??
>
> Jim A

There must be something else going on there because I have done exactly
what you describe several times.

I have 3 lineups - one for OTA US (zipcode), 1 for DirecTV and 1 for
uVerse.  I can bind the OTA lineup to any number of cards/HDHRs
simultaneously without issue.  Is there anything else in the log when you
fire the backend back up?
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