[mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR questions

[Ben Kamen]

On 2013-10-18 10:18 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 10/13/2013 02:41 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>> From: "David Engel"
>>> The hostility in the past has been because the suggestions were to
>>> save cardid/inputid. Those values can change when tuners are added,
>>> removed or renumbered making them less useful. The input displaay
>>> names can be more descriptive, so using them can solve the tuner
>>> change problem. Of course, it's still up to the user to add
>>> sufficiently descriptive names.
>> And that's patently ridiculous: how often are tuners *actually* changed
>> on production machines?  Every 3 or 4 years?
>
> Every boot on some machines (like mine)--depending on which tuner
> gets which number from the kernel.  I have no need for any udev or
> other rules to lock a physical card to a specific kernel number
> because every single one of my cards is "identical" (meaning they're
> all DVB-API cards that are attached to the same Video
> Source)--despite being 5 distinct physical cards from 2 manufacturers
> with 3 models of card.

As a sidenote: I did run a setup for a while using one tuner for Cable (before Clear-QAM went away) and one on a OTA connection.

Now I have an HDHR-prime with a CC installed, so any tuner cards will now all be OTA.

At some point, I was contemplating multiple OTA antennae because my stations are in different directions..
but that's a project for another day.

  -Ben

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