[mythtv-users] Adding channels for Firewire tuner

[Phil Bridges]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have 2 lineups with SD right now:  Analog for my basic cable (2-99)
>  and Digital (everything else).  My pcHD5500 tunes the OTA HD channels
>  fine and the analog channels.  Now, I want to add my STB as a 3rd
>  tuner.  Its a Motorola DCT-3412 and its connected via Firewire.  I can
>  run firewire_tester on it and I have the 6200ch script working for it.
>
>  The problem comes when I try to add a 3rd lineup to my SD account.  For
>  my area code, it has 2 lineups available: Digital and DigitalCable.
>  Digital is my basic 2-99 cable and DigitalCable is my HD stuff.  The
>  only other options that they give me to choose from are a bunch of
>  satellite lineups which I don't have.  I'd like to make a 3rd lineup
>  that has some of the channels that are only provided via Firewire:  i.e
>  higher than 99 and not OTA channels, like the new USA-HD and SciFi-HD
>  channels.
>
>  Does anyone have their setup such that they use their STB as a tuner?
>  Any tips?  As for lineup with SD, is this a question that I should be
>  asking on their forum?

This works for me:
http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-24.html#ss24.4