[mythtv-users] Issue with multiple sources for HD with zap2it and setting them to use 1 HD card. Sourcid problem?

[Kevin Kuphal]

Gene Stapp wrote:
> I found some channels in testing on my qam cable system. The channels in 
> question are tnt-hd, cinemax hd, and starz-hd. To get the zap2it lineups 
> for these channels I had to create a new login for zap2it and 2 new 
> listing sources from somewhere in virginia with a dish network listing 
> and a digital cable source in new york city because since these are in 
> "testing" they are not officially in zap2it or anywhere else. My problem 
> is, when I edit the sourceid to match my qam card, it works but only 
> until the next mythfilldatabase run. Then it says no data for the edited 
> channels and then the new channels pop back in without the freqid, and 
> the multiplex info, while still leaving the modified sources but with No 
> data in the guide. Also the source id on these channels that are created 
> go back to 5 and 6. (I have to edit source id to 1 to get it to work 
> with my HD qam card in channel database)
>
> Is there something I'm missing here? If i leave them as sourceid 5 and 6 
> it won't use my hd recorder card and it then will miss the recordings. 
> Am I supposed to import these channels into my main HD listing source 
> (source id 1).
> channel listing:
>   
What you're missing is that you can only have one source per card and 
that source and it's channels are maintained by zap2it and 
mythfilldatabase. 

That being said, I *think* you could do something like this:

Copy channel from source 5 to source 1 so you have two of them but 
obvioulsy change the source for the copy to 1.  If they have identical 
callsigns, I believe Myth will only show them once in the guide.  Since 
you have no cards that have source 5 defined, it should only try to 
record on the duplicate channel on source 1.

I don't think that mythfilldatabase will try to remove the extra channel 
but I'm not 100% sure.

Kevin