[mythtv-users] Setup without/without multirec and capturecard ids?

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Sat Mar 4 21:59:49 UTC 2017


On 04/03/17 20:03, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>
>
> On Mar 4, 2017 12:43 PM, "Yeechang Lee" <ylee at columbia.edu
> <mailto:ylee at columbia.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
>     <mailto:digitalaudiorock at gmail.com>> says:
>     > While that did in fact give me just one entry per physical tuner, it
>     > still numbered the ids as 1, 3, 5, and 7, and they showed up as such
>     > in many places in the UI. Is this expected behaviour?
>
>     This issue occurs with my HDHomeRuns too (one Prime for CableCARD, and
>     one first-generation OTA model). The OTA's two hardware tuners are
>     multirec-enabled and MythTV displays them as four (7-10), but the
>     Prime's three hardware tuners are displayed as 1, 3, and 5. I guess
>     it's an artifact of the fact that the Prime is multirec-capable if
>     used for QAM channels without CableCARD.
>
>     --
>     Frontend:               Apple MacBook Pro 2012 2.6GHz and 1TB SSD
>     Backend:                HP Microserver N40L 1.5GHz and 9.0TB JBOD
>     Video inputs:           Three from CableCARD and two over-the-air

>
> Probably due to the default 2 channels per tuner existing before being
> removed, thereby carving numbers into stone, as it were.

This bothered me too when I first encountered it.  I got around it by 
setting up one physical card and its multirec number before going on to 
the next card.  multirec comes later in the setup sequence than it did 
in 0.27(?) - at least for the DVB cards that I have.




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