[mythtv-users] minimize possibility input/capture card will be used for live TV

[James Miller]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Stephen Worthington wrote:

>> system seems always to want to use the capture card hooked to the DTA--I
>> presume because that is usually the last input from which the system
>> recorded something.
>
> When you go into LiveTV from the "Watch TV" menu, it tunes to the last
> channel LiveTV was tuned to.  If that channel was one that is only
> available from the DTA, then it will use the tuner connected to the
> DTA.  If you then change to a channel that is only available via the

Ok, I was mistaken about what is causing the system to want to go to the 
DTA tuner each time I select "watch TV": it's not because that was the 
input the system last recorded from, but because that was the input live 
TV was last tuned from. That makes sense, since I had been regularly 
checking, using the live TV option, whether that input was working 
properly.

To add a bit of further detail about the set-up, the DTA tunes, 
effectively, only one channel. I have not set up lirc or some such in 
order to allow the MythTV system to fully interface with the DTA, but have 
been content thus far to record from only one channel. So I manually tune 
that channel on the DTA, then just tell my MythTV system to record from 
the input attached to the DTA for a given period of time on each weekday. 
The channel the system tunes on that input (channel 3, so far as MythTV is 
concerned) does not exist in either of my OTA line-ups, by the way.

Am I understanding correctly, then, that there is no way to cause the 
system to tune a particular channel--one available to the inputs devoted 
to OTA but not available to the input connected to the DTA--whenever I 
select "watch TV?" If not it seems I'll need to manage by remembering, 
every time I've checked whether the input devoted to the DTA is working by 
tuning live TV on it, to make sure I switch back over to one of the OTA 
inputs afterward.

Thanks.