[mythtv-users] Two OTA antennas that pickup different channels

[Chris Harland]

Hello all,

Here's my setup: Latest Myth 0.21 (Mythbuntu flavor) and HDHomerun (love 
it) with two indoor, directional antennas.  I have five local stations, 
antenna/tuner 1 can pickup four of them (ABC, CBS, PBS, and FOX) and 
antenna/tuner 2 is pointed at three of them (CBS, NBC, PBS).  The setup 
works well if I manually tell recorded programs on ABC and FOX to use 
tuner 1 and NBC to use tuner 2.

My issue is with livetv, I'd like to be able to surf channels and have 
mythtv automatically change tuners (antennas) based on the channel.  For 
example, when I'm watching ABC on tuner 1, I want to select NBC from the 
program guide and have myth swap tuners and tune the channels.  I used 
to be able to do this (pre 0.21) in mythtv-setup by associating certain 
channels with certain inputs and removing channel from tuners that don't 
pick them up.

Now I use Schedules Direct (also love it) but since I have a single line 
up both tuners want to try to pull in all the channels.  So if I try to 
surf on tuner 1 and change from ABC to NBC the mythbox tries its hardest 
to tune NBC but it just can't.  I can't for the life of me figure out 
how to deny tuner 1 access to NBC and deny tuner 2 access to ABC and 
FOX.  Is my only solution to make two separate schedules direct line 
ups, one for antenna/tuner 1 and one for antenna/tuner 2 or am I missing 
something simple here?

As a follow up question, say I make two lineups and both include CBS and 
PBS, will myth know it can use either tuner for those two channels or is 
it best to just set CBS to one antenna and PBS to the other?

Thanks in advance,
Chris