[mythtv-users] Howto mix cable and DVB-T

[Mark Wormgoor]

Hi,

> I have a Hauppauge PVR-350 and a Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T installed on my 
> system.
> Because of this most channels in the programm guide are listed twice. 
> Once for the cable card and once for the DVB-T card.
> The cable card uses a tv_grabber script to get the tv informations, 
> while the information for the channels of the DVB-T card get their 
> information from the DVB-T signal.
> 
> 
> Here starts the problem. The two tv guide sources have different 
> content. They name some shows different, they have different names for 
> the episodes or even no name etc. Therefore if i want to record a show 
> and use the tv guide to plan, let's say "The Simpsons", and schedule it 
> to record whenever is occurs on a specific channel, let's say in german 
> Pro7, the same show is recorded twice.
> Because, e.g. on the cable channel it is called The Simpons - <episode 
> name>, and on the DVB-T channel it is called The SImpsons - <episode 
> name><number>.
> 
> 
> I would like to have all the channels only once in my tv guide ( i can 
> do this with hide, i know ). But also i want mythtv to use only on 
> source for the tv guides information, so that channels with the same 
> name have the same tv guide information.
> 
> 
> Is this feasabel somehow? 
> 
> What would be cool too is to have a channel only listed once in the tv 
> guide and of i want to watch live tv, then mythtv decides if to use 
> cable card or DVB-T card. Because if i just hide channels, e.g. from the 
> DVB-T card in the tv guide and the channel i want to watch is blocked on 
> the cable card, i can not watch the channel although it would be 
> wat<chable on the DVB-T card. But
> this is not listed in the tv guide.

Yes, it can be done. I have the same problem (analog cable + digital 
cable). You create two different inputs, each with its own set of 
channels. Then, you need to:
1. Make sure that channels on both inputs have the same callsign on both 
channels (i.e. both are called Pro7)
2. Make sure that channels on both inputs have the same xmltvid (where 
appropriate of course).

Also, make sure you disable 'useonairguide' for those channels that 
exist on both inputs and that you get channel information for those 
through xmltv. Your EIT information usually looks very different from 
the xmltv data as you've seen.

Kind regards,

Mark