<html dir="ltr"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body class="" style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;" bgcolor="#f7f7f7" text="#2c2c2c" link="#0080ff" vlink="#2c2c2c"><div>On Thu, 2018-12-06 at 11:53 -0500, James Abernathy wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">I’ve giving this a test. On the wiki it states in part:<div class=""><h3 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; font-family: sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span class="mw-headline" id="Example_usage_in_MythTV">Example usage in MythTV</span></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">In mythtv-setup, select "Capture cards"</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Select "New capture card"</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Select "External (black box) recorder" as the card type</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Specify the executable and (usually) append an arbritary unique device name, for example: /home/mythtv/bin/mythhdhrrecorder --devicename 0</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Specify the Max Recordings as 1</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Select "Finish" to create the capture card</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Repeat as needed for the number of tuners you want MythTV to utilize</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Perform video source setup as usual</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">For each tuner, go to input connections and add the video source, and select "Fetch Channels" if the video source is newly created to populate the channel data (this does not work with ATSC video sources due to the major/minor numbering, but workarounds exist)</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">I can’t find the setting for Max Recordings. I’m using the latest 29.1 Mythtv backend and I got this mythhdhrrecorder script from the github link in the wiki.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Has that been changed to force it to 1 and no need to have an option???</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jim A</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><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><a href="https://forum.mythtv.org"><pre>https://forum.mythtv.org</pre></a></blockquote><pre><br></pre><pre>I used input connections, select tuner, then under interactions between tuners, set maximum recordings. i don't know</pre><pre>if it is right thing, but i have no problems using 4 tuner quattro with the hdhrrecorder external</pre></body></html>