<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><b>From: </b>"Michael T. Dean" <mtdean@thirdcontact.com><br><b>To: </b>"Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, October 23, 2013 10:30:31 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [mythtv-users] Myth .27 no longer has pre-tune channel setting.<br><br>On 10/23/2013 11:43 AM, Daryl McDonald wrote:<br>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>>> On 10/23/2013 12:50 AM, Stefan Jones wrote:<br>>>> Well, I got rid of the "ghost encoders" that have been around forever.<br>>>><br>>>> The newly added PVR-150 / "Analog to MPEG2" encoder still doesn't have<br>>>> that item.<br>>><br>>> I put in a query to a developer about the changeset that seems to have<br>>> broken it. Thanks for noticing.<br>> I'm using a PVR 150 with an IR blaster controlling a STB and after a<br>> upgrade from 025 to 027 everything continued to work, Hmmm.<br><br>Preset tuner to channel is only used when using (the terrible) <br>RF-modulated output of an STB (such as a Digital Tuning Adapter that <br>*only* has RF-modulated (coax) output). If you're using S-Video or <br>Composite output from the STB (as you should be if those are available), <br>you're not using Preset tuner to channel.<br><br>That said, the bug only affects what's displayed in setup, not how <br>things work. So, if you had previously configured your PVR-x50 (even <br>with a Preset tuner to channel), all would work. You just can't <br>configure new ones or reconfigure that way until setup is fixed.<br></blockquote>This was true for my in the first hours after I got Myth working under Fedora 19 & Myth .27. I was able to use Watch TV to view the analog channels. <br><br>Then, in the course of trying to add my new Silicon Dust tuners, I accidentally reconfigured the encoder record for the PVR-150. It was in trying to restore it that I noticed the missing field.<br><br>I am trying a fix noted in another thread:<br><br>Install ivtv utility package:<br><br>yum install ivtv-utils<br><br>Add to my change_channel.sh script, before the lines for changing the channel in the IR blaster:<br><br>ivtv-tune -c3 -d /dev/video2<br><br>This worked the few times I tried it this morning.<br><br>The suggestion about using the composite or S-Video outputs is interesting. Right now the coax goes into the PVR-150, and the composite video and audio goes to my TV. (The TV only has one coax connector.) If I can split the outputs, or if there is an S-video connector, I may try that.<br><br>(Of course, when I get my Silicon Dust tuner working, this will all be academic. It should be able to tune the entire lineup, with three tuners,m and I can get rid of the PVR-150. However, I am not confident that Comcast will get the CableCard properly activated in a prompt manner. <br><br>And then at the end of the month the HD clear QAMs I've been tuning with my digital tuners may go away. Arggghhh.)<br><br>Thanks again.<br></div></body></html>