On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Peter Watkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peterw@tux.org">peterw@tux.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Folks, I could use some advice!<br>
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Current setup: Located in USA. Backend+Frontend on Ubuntu 8.04 x64. Using the Ubuntu MythTV 0.21 package (0.21.0+fixes16838). Two SD tuners (Hauppauge PVR-500), two HD tuners (one HDHomerun device). Cable TV feed going to the SD tuners, indoor antenna feeding the HDHomerun for OTA HD.<br>
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Problem #1: two local broadcasters switched from UHF to VHF and now I cannot receive their programming over the air. (Please just accept this as a given. I've tried multiple tuners, antennas, and locations -- everything shy of a roof-mounted aerial.)<br>
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Problem #2: while my cable company currently rebroadcasts the local channels on unencrypted QAM, the picture quality is not as good as the OTA ATSC signal (I understand some cable companies compress the HD signal to save bandwidth).<br>
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What I'd like:<br>
A) Connect my HD antenna to HDHomerun tuner #1, and use it as a higher priority tuner for the local UHF channels.<br>
B) Connect my cable feed to HDHomerun tuner #2 (in addition to the SD tuners) and use it to record the local VHF broadcasts via QAM. Ideally it would record any local channel (UHF or VHF) but be a lower priority so MythTV would always try to record the UHF programs from the antenna/ATSC. Less desirable (but still better than I have now) would be only using HDHomerun #2 for VHF channels via QAM.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>For me both tuners show separately in mythtv-setup so you should be able to assign one lineup to the first tuner and a second lineup to the second tuner.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Problem #3:<br>
Schedules Direct will only let me create one listing source for local HD broadcasts -- and if I assign that source to both HDHomerun tuners, MythTV expects to see all local channels on both HDHomerun tuners -- so it sometimes tries to tun VHF on the antenna-fed tuner and fails (at least in my initial tests with Live TV; even though I asked mythtv-setup to scan for channels and HDHomerun could not get a lock on the VHF broadcasters, Live TV tries to tune them).<br>
</blockquote><div> Just create a second lineup that only includes the OTA channels in Schedules Direct and assign it to the second tuner. Even if you can't create more lineups for your ZIP code, just use a neighboring city's ZIP code and create the OTA lineup for it since they should match exactly.<br>
<br>--dejan<br></div></div>