I have received a few replies on this topic which indicate that myth cannot switch to second tuner in HDHR if the first one is used by another (windows) client<br><br>I wish to point out that I have Myth 0.21.20080304-1 on another machine which switches to the second tuner when I tried it at the same time. There is something that makes it do that. Is there a way to set a preferred tuner among two,<br>
<br>-----------------------------<br>Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:36:27 -0400<br>
From: Raymond Wagner <<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] myth 0.24 does not use second tuner in<br>
HDHR<br>
To: Discussion about MythTV <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>
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On 10/9/2011 16:27, R KANNAN wrote:<br>
> I can watch all channels fine on tuner 0. But when the first tuner is<br>
> used by another client (Windows) on the network, myth does not switch<br>
> to tuner 1.<br>
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Correct. MythTV expects it will have dedicated access and control to<br>
any recording hardware it knows about. If it does not have dedicated<br>
control, then there is no possible way it can properly schedule<br>
recordings, as the available tuner count would be arbitrarily changing.<br>
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> I have two input connections using the two tuners and the same video<br>
> source. One thing I don't understand is the input group 1 and 2 for<br>
> both input connections.<br>
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Input groups are only to be used when you have multiple tuners defined<br>
that use mutually exclusive resources. An example of this would be<br>
using both firewire and analog capture from a single set top box.<br>
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