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

[James Abernathy]

> On Oct 27, 2018, at 11:13 AM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 2:23 PM glen <glenb at glenb.us> wrote:
>> .... also the smart apps would be able to pick up a tuner if myth is already using one, just not the other way around.
> 
> Worse, the smart apps may pull a tuner out from under the
> use of MythTV.  Currently MythTV natively does not implement
> shared/pooled/locking of the available HDHR tuners (that was
> the purpose of the aforementioned external recorder).  Of
> course, the future is hard to predict (nor when it might
> arrive).
> 
> The MythTV architecture, today, has a lot of presumptions
> about knowing what tuners are available to it exclusively.
> Not only do recordings (typically) fail if the tuner is
> unavailable (depending on exact specifications,
> sometimes it will be recording anyway), the presumptions
> go all the way down to scheduling (if it could know, 24
> hours in advance, that the dog was going to be watching
> Animal Planet on live TV in its dogPad in the crate it might
> schedule the (now) smaller number of available tuners at that
> time in a different way to not record some lower priority
> program (for the cat, obviously)).  Arguably if the project
> was able to provide native apps for the smart TVs, the
> iDevices, the ATV boxes, etc. then MythTV could again
> become the center of everything, but the resources do
> not seem to be available to implement and support that
> diverse ecosystem, so some (better) sharing is needed
> for those tuners to avoid the cats and dogs arguing over
> who gets to control the world.

Okay, this is interesting. I can’t control who in the house may accidentally pick an app related to HDHR while Mythtv is recording.  Roku and FireTV along with my Samsung TV all have apps for HDHR.

So It’ sound like I need to implement this for my HDHR regardless of not planing to use multiple apps.

Right now I have Quatro set to allow recording of 2 shows each, so I get a list of 8 available tuners. All of my major local channels have sub-channels for things like MeTV. Somewhere I read that this was the proper setup and I’ve not had issues. I do have cases where I set a program to record longer than normally required so I get all of the program if a show starts late. At the same time I have the next program on the same channel start recording.  So I get 2 recordings that overlap, but the recordings do contain all of the program I wanted.

So this brings the question about setup of the script. All of my tuners are OTA USA. How should I set this up?

Jim A

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