<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;" bgcolor="#f7f7f7" text="#818181" link="#3399ff" vlink="#2c2c2c"><div>On Sat, 2018-10-27 at 08:10 -0400, Jim Abernathy wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>I've been playing with the HDHR Quatro and I'm interested in how it can </pre><pre>be used.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Normally it's dedicated to one backend. That backend does NOT have the </pre><pre>active scan for EIT data enabled.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Since my Smart TV and Macbook both have HDHR apps, I can run those </pre><pre>without messing up my backend.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I'm trying to figure out if that's has just been good luck or is the </pre><pre>combination of mythtv backend and HDHR smart enough to just grab an </pre><pre>unused tuner at the time of recording and continue.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>That also makes me wonder if 2 backends could both have all channels </pre><pre>setup on the HDHR Quatro and share then as long as too many recordings </pre><pre>were not happening at the same time.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Jim A</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>mythtv-users mailing list</pre><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org"><pre>mythtv-users@mythtv.org</pre></a><pre><br></pre><a href="http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users"><pre>http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</pre></a><pre><br></pre><a href="http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette"><pre>http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette</pre></a><pre><br></pre><pre>MythTV Forums: </pre></blockquote><pre><a href="https://forum.mythtv.org">https://forum.mythtv.org</a></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>The only way you are gog to use hdhr quatro on multiple devices including smart tv apps is to use </pre><pre><br></pre><pre><a href="https://github.com/garybuhrmaster/mythhdhrrecorder">https://github.com/garybuhrmaster/mythhdhrrecorder</a></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>which uses the hdhr api to allocate the tuners no matter what is asking for a tuner. using the mythtv builtin capture</pre><pre>device will allocate static. for example if you set up tuner0 as a capture it will always ask for that tuner. so if you</pre><pre>are using a smart app that grabbed that tuner, and myth tries to get a show there it will fail. using gary buhrmaster's external</pre><pre>recorder, myth will get the first available tuner. so you would only get failure when all four are in use on somthing else.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>it looks like so far mostly you have been luckly. if you don't use non myth applications then you would probably be ok. and also the</pre><pre>smart apps would be able to pick up a tuner if myth is already using one, just not the other way around.</pre></body></html>