[mythtv-users] recording from defined tuner

[Tom]

Thanks for your detailed answer!

Am Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2005 19:14 schrieb Bruce Markey:
> Thomas Bürger wrote:
> > I am using 2 tuners (one DVB-T card and a PVR-350). Both offer the same
> > channels (more or less), so I set all equal channels to the same database
> > ID (by using the same name).
>
> To be clear, you should have two different video sources defined.
> For the channels that carry the same station, the "callsign" should
> be the same.

Yes, got this all to work.

>
> > Now I got some quality trouble on some channels on tuner 1 and so I would
> > like to advice the recording to use tuner 2. But How do I do this? I set
> > the
>
> You cannot specify the tuner but presumably you have one source
> for DVB associated with the DVB input and a source for the analog
> channels associated with the PVR-350's input.

Ok, understood..

>
> > priority of the channel on the second tuner (PVR) to 1 as the priority of
> > the tuner 1 channel is 0 but this seams not to work.
>
> I do this all the time. In fact, I use chanel priorities to switch
> which input is preferred sometimes for special cases.

Hm ... I did this through the mythweb-frontend and it seams not to work, but I 
will test that tonight - maybe I did something wrong there.

Even if I'm not a real expert in mysql, I will try to follow your guide, to 
see if something is missing.
 
>
> mysql> select sourceid,name from videosource;
> +----------+--------------+
>
> | sourceid | name         |
>
> +----------+--------------+
>
> |        1 | CoxCableDD   |
> |        2 | CoxDigitalDD |
>
> mysql> select chanid,sourceid,channum,callsign,recpriority from channel
> where callsign='KVBC';
> +--------+----------+---------+----------+-------------+
>
> | chanid | sourceid | channum | callsign | recpriority |
>
> +--------+----------+---------+----------+-------------+
>
> |   1003 |        1 | 3       | KVBC     |           0 |
> |   2123 |        2 | 123     | KVBC     |           0 |
>
> KVBC is on analog 3 and digital 123. My analog inputs are lower
> numbered than my digital so it prefers channel 3 by default.
>
> --- print list start ---
> Title - Subtitle                    Chan ChID Day Start  End   S C I  T N
> Pri LPGA Golf - "Samsung World Champion    3 1003  16 10:00-13:59  1 1 1  S
> 1   3
>
>
> If I go to TV Settings->Recording Priorities->Set Channel Recording
> Priorities, I can lower the priority for 3 to give showings on 123
> the advantage. I don't want to give 123 an advantage over all other
> channels so I lower 3 to gain this effect. 

good point ...

>
> mysql> select chanid,sourceid,channum,callsign,recpriority from channel
> where callsign='KVBC';
> +--------+----------+---------+----------+-------------+
>
> | chanid | sourceid | channum | callsign | recpriority |
>
> +--------+----------+---------+----------+-------------+
>
> |   1003 |        1 | 3       | KVBC     |          -1 |
> |   2123 |        2 | 123     | KVBC     |           0 |
>
> --- print list start ---
> Title - Subtitle                    Chan ChID Day Start  End   S C I  T N
> Pri LPGA Golf - "Samsung World Champion  123 2123  16 10:00-13:59  2 2 6  S
> 2   3
>
> The priority for "LPGA Golf" is 0, Single record is +3 so the total
> priority for a single LPGA Golf on 123 is +3 but only +2 on channel
> 3 so 123 wins. If there was a higher priority show that needed the
> digital input then "LPGA Golf" would record on channel 3 from one of
> the analog inputs.

thanks again - Tom