[mythtv-users] Issue with multiple IVTV tuners

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:44:55 -0500, you wrote:

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

I just noticed that your #EXTMYTHTV lines do not look quite like mine:

#EXTMYTHTV:I4.11420.zap2it.com

versus

#EXTMYTHTV:xmltvid=thebox.sky.co.nz

I thought they needed the "xmltvid=" bit to work properly.