[mythtv-users] Tuner Rollover

[Daniel Arfsten]

I'm continuing to experiment with firewire issues, but I'm
wondering, as
I cannot find any mention of it, although I may be using the
wrong
search terms.

In the event a tuner fails to record, is there is a setting or
feature
that would have the recording begin on an alternate tuner? If
not, is
this worth submitting as a feature request? It would protect my
firewire
problems....if firewire goes flooey, it would try it on a lower
priority
tuner...ie my analog connection to the cable box.


RE below:
Well it's my understanding that you should only have the channels that you 
can record over firewire associated to a source and that source associated 
to the firewire input, meaning the firewire source would have (in my 
example: HD "clear" channels 504, 505, 506, 510, 512, 518, 524). The analog 
input would have a source that had ALL the channels that the pvr-350 can 
"tune" itself. which obvioulsy does NOT include the channels I listed above.

So there would be no way that if the firewire recording failed that it could 
go to another tuner, because that channel is not assocaited to that other 
tuner. It would be nice if there was some way to be able to edit each 
channel somewhere (thru mythfrontend?) and tell mythtv which tuners work 
with which channels. Right now it's very confussing using 1 lineup and 
multiple sources which is why I may just bite the bullet and purchase 
another account from SD.

My setup is as follows and I haven't gotten it straightened out yet:
Master Backend
PVR-500 and Firewire pci card
-Firewire from SA 3250HD STB (1 CableDigital source from SD (53172) should 
only have 8 channels)
-Analog Tuner (1 Cable lineup from SD with all channels)
-Analog Tuner (1 Cable lineup from SD with all channels)

Slave Backend
PVR-350
-S-Video IN on PVR-350 from SA 3250HD (a 2nd STB) s-video out (A second 
CableDigital source from SD (53172) should have ALL channels)

I have tried the caching suppport but it's not working with the firewire 
input.

Daniel