[mythtv-users] Issue with multiple IVTV tuners

[James B. Huber]

On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 17:56 +1300, Stephen Worthington wrote:

> With normal IPTV, what you need is to have one source for the tuners
> and use the same .m3u file for each tuner on that sourceid.  You can
> have as many IPTV tuners for the same source as you like, so if you
> want to record from 5 channels at once you would set up 5 tuners. Each
> of the URLs needs to differentiate the channel - no two URLs in the
> .m3u file should be the same.  Here is an except from mine:
> 
> #EXTINF:0,4089 - BBC World
> #EXTMYTHTV:xmltvid=bbc-world.sky.co.nz
> #EXTVLCOPT:program=1026
> rtsp://satip.jsw.gen.nz:554/?src=1&freq=12581&msys=dvbs&plts=off&fec=34&pol=h&ro=0.35&sr=22500&mtype=qpsk&pids=0,1099,1009,1109
> 
> #EXTINF:0,4083 - Face TV
> #EXTMYTHTV:xmltvid=face-tv.sky.co.nz
> #EXTVLCOPT:program=1187
> rtsp://satip.jsw.gen.nz:554/?src=1&freq=12581&msys=dvbs&plts=off&fec=34&pol=h&ro=0.35&sr=22500&mtype=qpsk&pids=0,320,1010,1110
> 
> #EXTINF:0,4027 - TVSN Shopping
> #EXTMYTHTV:xmltvid=tvsn.sky.co.nz
> #EXTVLCOPT:program=1210
> rtsp://satip.jsw.gen.nz:554/?src=1&freq=12581&msys=dvbs&plts=off&fec=34&pol=h&ro=0.35&sr=22500&mtype=qpsk&pids=0,321,1011,1111
> 
> #EXTINF:0,4005 - the BOX
> #EXTMYTHTV:xmltvid=thebox.sky.co.nz
> #EXTVLCOPT:program=1001
> rtsp://satip.jsw.gen.nz:554/?src=1&freq=12608&msys=dvbs&plts=off&fec=34&pol=h&ro=0.35&sr=22500&mtype=qpsk&pids=0,1019,1001,1101
> 
> It is possible that MythTV is getting confused by only having one URL
> per tuner and having those same two URLs on all channels.  One fix for
> that would be to use two sources, one per tuner.  That would mean that
> the EPG data would need to be stored twice in the database, but it
> should work.

First off, MANY, MANY thanks to everyone who has offerred suggestions
and ideas. I have things working now.

I have created 2 seperate "sources" for guide listings, even though they
both contain exactly the same data. (Spectrum-1 & Spectrum-2)

I have associated 1 source to one and only 1 tuner (FBE200-1 ->
Spectrum-1, and FBE200-2 -> Spectrum-2)

Regenerated the .m3u file so there is only 1 recording group, and
ensured that the XMLID coming from the guide provider is intact and not
seperated. Yes I still needed to parse to come-up with channel number
and name.

Deleted the tuners, recreated, had it read the .m3u files for channels
(seperate for each tuner, only difference in the .m3u files is the IP
address of the stream).

Run mythfilldatabase and all is well.

FWIW if anyone is interested the .m3u files look like this:
$%head FBE200-1.m3u
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,3 - WOFL
#EXTMYTHTV:I3.11751.zap2it.com
http://199.33.251.43:80/main
#EXTINF:0,4 - WESH
#EXTMYTHTV:I4.11420.zap2it.com
http://199.33.251.43:80/main
#EXTINF:0,5 - WKMG
#EXTMYTHTV:I5.11364.zap2it.com
http://199.33.251.43:80/main

%head FBE200-2.m3u
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,3 - WOFL
#EXTMYTHTV:I3.11751.zap2it.com
http://199.33.251.44:80/main
#EXTINF:0,4 - WESH
#EXTMYTHTV:I4.11420.zap2it.com
http://199.33.251.44:80/main
#EXTINF:0,5 - WKMG
#EXTMYTHTV:I5.11364.zap2it.com
http://199.33.251.44:80/main


A single URL for every channel is fine, it appears the real magic is
using seperate sourceID's (even though the data is the same) per IPTV
encoder, at least when using the way I am.


Again, thank you ALL so much for the suggestions and thought provoking
ideas. THANK YOU !!!


Kindest Regards,
Jim