[mythtv-users] SiliconDust HD Homerun Quatro - multiple backends

[glen]

On Sat, 2018-10-27 at 08:10 -0400, Jim Abernathy wrote:
> I've been playing with the HDHR Quatro and I'm interested in how it
> can be used.
> Normally it's dedicated to one backend.  That backend does NOT have
> the active scan for EIT data enabled.
> Since my Smart TV and Macbook both have HDHR apps, I can run those
> without messing up my backend.
> I'm trying to figure out if that's has just been good luck or is the
> combination of mythtv backend and HDHR smart enough to just grab an
> unused tuner at the time of recording and continue.
> That also makes me wonder if 2 backends could both have all channels
> setup on the HDHR Quatro and share then as long as too many
> recordings were not happening at the same time.
> Jim A
> 
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The only way you are gog to use hdhr quatro on multiple devices
including smart tv apps is to use 
https://github.com/garybuhrmaster/mythhdhrrecorder
which uses the hdhr api to allocate the tuners no matter what is asking
for a tuner. using the mythtv builtin capturedevice will allocate
static. for example if you set up tuner0 as a capture it will always
ask for that tuner. so if youare using a smart app that grabbed that
tuner, and myth tries to get a show there it will fail. using gary
buhrmaster's externalrecorder, myth will get the first available tuner.
so you would only get failure when all four are in use on somthing
else.
it looks like so far mostly you have been luckly. if you don't use non
myth applications then you would probably be ok. and also thesmart apps
would be able to pick up a tuner if myth is already using one, just not
the other way around.
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