[mythtv-users] Combining Multiple Sources

[Another Sillyname]

2009/5/27 Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com>:
> On 27/05/2009, James McCalden <james at mccalden.com> wrote:
>
>>  I found a few pages that suggested setting the same channel number for the
>> channel from each source, so setting BBC1 freeview and BBC1 freesat to 101
>> for example. Unfortunately that just seemed to confuse everything and I was
>> unable to tune any channels at all. Does anyone else do something similar?
>> Is there a suggested way of running this sort of setup?
>
> Changing the channel number (called channum in the database) does not
> affect tuning, so I think you may have altered the wrong field.
>
> If you want the same channel (or station in US-speak) on multiple
> sources to only appear once in the EPG, set the channum to be the same
> for each of the relevant channels. Do _not_ change the chanid or
> freqid fields. You can update the name of the channels to be
> consistent also.
>
> For these channels to be treated as the same for scheduling purposes,
> you need to ensure that the callsign and XMLTVIDs are the same for
> such channels.
>
> To give preference to one input over another, you can assign input
> (and channel) priorities in mythtv-setup. In an example scenario where
> BBC1 is available on both Freesat and FreeView, assigning a higher
> priority to the Freesat source would use the Freesat source in
> preference to the FreeView one. Note that historically and without
> setting individual source preferences, the first input source
> configured in mythtv-setup is the preferred recording source and least
> preferred LiveTV source.
>
> Nick
>
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Guys

You may find this thread from a couple of months back useful......it
covered this fairly extensively.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/375444

Regards