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

[Mike Perkins]

On 04/03/17 20:03, Daryl McDonald wrote:
> On Mar 4, 2017 12:43 PM, "Yeechang Lee" <ylee at columbia.edu> wrote:
>
> Tom Dexter <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.
>
So what happens if you wanted to record more that two channels at a time? If you have to go back in 
and change multirec to three (for example), the tuner numbers will be all over the place!

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Mike Perkins