[mythtv-users] Capture Card Priority

[Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)]

Actually - I just fixed it by setting the preference of that card higher in 
the cardinput table.

M.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)" <michael-mlists at cheshire.id.au>
To: "Ian Trider" <iantri at gmail.com>; "Discussion about mythtv" 
<mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Capture Card Priority


> Ian,
>
> I only have
>
>         chanid  int(10)  UNSIGNED No  0
>         channum  varchar(5)   No
>         freqid  varchar(10)   Yes  NULL
>         sourceid  int(10)  UNSIGNED Yes  NULL
>         callsign  varchar(20)   No
>         name  varchar(64)   No
>         icon  varchar(255)   No  none
>         finetune  int(11)   Yes  NULL
>         videofilters  varchar(255)   No
>         xmltvid  varchar(64)   No
>         recpriority  int(10)   No  0
>         contrast  int(11)   Yes  32768
>         brightness  int(11)   Yes  32768
>         colour  int(11)   Yes  32768
>         hue  int(11)   Yes  32768
>         tvformat  varchar(10)   No  Default
>         commfree  tinyint(4)   No  0
>         visible  tinyint(1)   No  1
>         outputfilters  varchar(255)   No
>         useonairguide  tinyint(1)   Yes  0
>         mplexid  smallint(6)   Yes  NULL
>         serviceid  smallint(6)   Yes  NULL
>         atscsrcid  int(11)   Yes  NULL
>
>
> fields in my channel table - cant see chanpiority ?
>
> M.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ian Trider" <iantri at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 5:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Capture Card Priority
>
>
>> On Apr 6, 2005 8:57 AM, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
>> <michael-mlists at cheshire.id.au> wrote:
>>>
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>> Is there a setting that will make myth use one card as a priority before
>>> it
>>> uses another?
>>
>> I have a similar issue -- I have two cards, one tuning from an
>> antenna, one inputting from a satelliteI pull in (via antenna) locals
>> in Buffalo, NY and Toronto, ON.  They are in very different
>> directions, so I need to use an antenna rotor to make the Buffalo
>> stations come in.  Satellite has the same channels on it. Because it
>> is difficult to predict whether the antenna will be tuned correctly at
>> any given time, I have set the 'chanpriority' in the channels table of
>> the mythtv database higher (i.e. 3 or 4) on the Buffalo channels on
>> satellite.
>>
>> MythTV recognizes stations with identical callsigns to be the same, so
>> increasing the chanpriority causes it to prefer recording Buffalo
>> stations from satellite, unless it is otherwise occupied -- it will
>> then switch to antenna (possibly not pointed in the right direction,
>> but better than nothing).
>>
>> If you set 'chanpriority' on the channels coming in through the DVB-T
>> card to higher than that of the chanpriority of channels coming in
>> through the set-top box, it should rather record from the DVB-T card
>> unless it can avoid it.
>>
>> Untested SQL for doing this (WARNING!  COULD BORK YOUR DATABASE IF IT
>> ISN"T QUITE RIGHT!)
>>
>> UPDATE channel SET chanpriority=5 WHERE sourceid=42;
>>
>> .. put the sourceid of your DVB-T card in where I've put '42'.
>>
>> -- 
>> Ian Trider
>> iantri at gmail.com
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