[mythtv-users] Capturecard names and multirec tuners

[Tom Dexter]

I have three HDHomeRun (HDHR4-2US) units, with two tuners each, for a
total of 6 physical tuners. When adding them and creating the inputs
(allowing a max recordings of 2) I've of course ended up with a total
of 12 capturecard records:

select cardid, inputname, sourceid, displayname from capturecard;
+--------+-----------+----------+-------------+
| cardid | inputname | sourceid | displayname |
+--------+-----------+----------+-------------+
|      1 | None      |        1 | HDHR 1      |
|      2 | None      |        1 | HDHR 1      |
|      3 | None      |        1 | HDHR 2      |
|      4 | None      |        1 | HDHR 2      |
|      5 | None      |        1 | HDHR 3      |
|      6 | None      |        1 | HDHR 3      |
|      7 | None      |        1 | HDHR 4      |
|      8 | None      |        1 | HDHR 4      |
|      9 | None      |        1 | HDHR 5      |
|     10 | None      |        1 | HDHR 5      |
|     11 | None      |        1 | HDHR 6      |
|     12 | None      |        1 | HDHR 6      |
+--------+-----------+----------+-------------+
12 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Unless I'm mistaken, when creating the two rows there per physical
tuner based on the max recordings, I don't think mythtv-setup gives
you any means of giving different names to each of the two in a pair.
I'm fairly sure I've read here on the list at some point that some
users manually rename these to make things less confusing...for
example in the above case, HDHR 1-1 and HDHR 1-2 or whatever in place
of two with HDHR 1.

Has anyone done that? Also, am I better off putting the name in the
existing displayname, or in the inputname?

I'm also unclear as to exactly what that would affect. I've seen some
places in the frontend UI (as well as mythweb) that display the
existing HDHR names above. However there are some places, for example
the Upcoming Recording screen in the frontend seems to use the ids
(1-12) and I'm unclear if that would change.

Thanks in advance for any clarification!

Tom