[mythtv-users] Wrong Channel when recording?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/14/2015 11:09 AM, Roger Martensson wrote:
> So today I have same channum and same callsign.  It looks as it is 
> selecting the HD channel but when watching the recording it has 
> recorded from the SD channel.

By definition, there's no way you can say, "It looks as it is selecting 
the HD channel," because there's no way to tell them apart (to say which 
one it looks like it's selecting) when they have the same channel number 
and call sign.  :)

You may be saying, "MythWeb (or mythfrontend?) is showing me the program 
details for the show on the HDTV channel when I select the show in 
Upcoming Recordings," but that has nothing to do with what the scheduler 
is going to do--it's just showing you the program details, not the 
"scheduled recording" details.

If you look at the backend status, it will show, "The next 10 shows that 
are scheduled for recording" and shows the "encoder" (input) and call 
sign.  If you use mythbackend --printsched it shows the channel number, 
the call sign, the source, the card, and the input.  But none of those 
will tell you which of the 2 "identical for the purposes of Live TV and 
scheduling" (due to identical channel numbers and identical call signs, 
respectively) channels will be used to record it (at least in your 
one-input system).

Mike