[mythtv-users] Guide data for vbox and hdhomerun

[Mike Perkins]

On 18/08/16 06:30, myth wrote:
>> Hoi myth,
>>
>> Thursday, August 18, 2016, 4:53:47 AM, you wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>
>>> I am starting to add a Vbox http://vboxcomm.com/ to my mythtv setup.
>>> I already have a hdhomerun and use it to receive over-the-air DVB
>>> using EIT as the program data source.
>>
>>> Now I am trying to add the Vbox to the same antenna and ideally this
>>> would share the same program data and be able to use either the Vbox
>>> tuners or the Hdhomerun tuners on an as-needed basis.
>>
>>> However, it appears that Vbox MUST use a Video Source other than that
>>> used by the Hdhomerun.
>>
>>> Any ideas as to how I can get this configured?
>>
>>> So far, I have setup up an independent Video source for the Vbox and
>>> connected it using Input Connections.
>>> I have scanned the channels for this new Video Source.
>>> I have renamed any channel names and call signs so that the two
>>> sources match for Name, Callsign and Channel number.
>>
>>> By doing a Manual recording, I can force Mythtv to record from the
>>> Vbox source and prove that it records correctly.
>>> However, the Vbox is never selected as a recording option by the
> scheduler.
>>> When the Hdhomerun tuners are at capacity any additional scheduled
>>> recording just fail.
>>
>>> I'm not sure where to go from here?
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Andrew
>>
>>
>> A channel has a chanid, a channum and a callsign. If one of those is the
> same for
>> two channels MythTV sees them as equal. I forgot which one, but I think
> it's
>> somewhere in the WIKI. Also if I remember right one of the other was to
> make
>> two channels show as one in the guide!
>> Search on those three names in the WIKI!
>>
>
> Thank you, I found the root cause is that you have to import program data
> (e.g. xmltv) for each Video Source, even if, as in this case, both Video
> Sources are identical.
> (I think the new Vbox input type, broke the Mythtv concept of where Video
> Source and Card Type were independent.)
>
> The problem still remains that Hdhomerun supports EIT, while Vbox does not.
> (or at least Mythtv doesn't support EIT on the Vbox, yet:)
> Thus, I imported the Vbox xmltv output via mythfilldatabase.  However,
> although, nearly identical, they are not truly identical.  So where for
> instance where all is the same but the Program ID is different Myth will
> schedule the program twice.
>
> I guess I have to ditch EIT and find a common data source that I can import
> to both Video Sources using mythfilldatabase?
>
But you're already using an xmltv data source for the Vbox? Just feed that to your HDHR source as well.

BTW You need different sources for HDHR and Vbox because they are tuned in different ways.

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Mike Perkins