[mythtv-users] HDHomerun Prime with CableCard on Myth 0.29 via External (black box) Tuner

[Peter Bennett]

On 7/12/22 09:38, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 09:01:44AM -0400, Peter Bennett wrote:
>> On 7/12/22 08:23, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
>>> Good morning,
>>>
>>> [ ...snip... ]
>> Is there some problem with the built-in hd homerun support in MythTV, that
>> you want to use it via an external recorder? I used an HD Homerun Prime for
>> a few years with the built-in support. Since then the built-in support has
>> been improved with better reservation and allocation of tuners.
>>
>> Peter
>>
> When I run through the normal path on my HDHomerun Prime, which is
> connected via cable card to my CATV feed, It discovers 25 ATSC
> Terrestrial channels and it cannot tune anything. Further, there are
> three HD Homeruns on the network, the prime, connected to my CATV feed
> with CableCard, A Connect, and a Quattro both connected to two
> different antennas. When I first set things up, I had trouble
> discriminating between the three devices. I'm hoping to use the --hdhr
> option in the External tuner to forcibly bind an input connection to a
> programming source.
>
> I'm in the Hartford, CT broadcast area on the border of the NYC
> broadcast area. The CATV company frequently plays games with the
> broadcasters around here, periodically turning off the CATV feed for
> some channel that I can pick up via antenna. I'm trying to insulate
> myself from such disputes and walk, not run away from CATV.
>
You should be able to assign them to separate "capture cards" and then 
associate the separate "capture cards" with different inputs. As I see 
it the only restriction is that all tuners on one HDHR use the same 
input and listings source. I used to have a setup with separate tuners 
and listing sources back when basic channels on cable were not encrypted 
and a separate tuner could get the encrypted ones.

I only have one hdhr so I can't test it, but let me know what the 
problem is with that.

Peter