[mythtv-users] HDHomerun Prime with CableCard on Myth 0.29 via External (black box) Tuner

[Christopher Sean Hilton]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 10:10:47AM -0400, Peter Bennett wrote:
> 
> On 7/12/22 09:38, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 09:01:44AM -0400, Peter Bennett wrote:
> >> On 7/12/22 08:23, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
> >>> Good morning,
> >>>
> >>> [ ...snip... ]
> >> Is there some problem with the built-in hd homerun support in MythTV, that
> >> you want to use it via an external recorder? I used an HD Homerun Prime for
> >> a few years with the built-in support. Since then the built-in support has
> >> been improved with better reservation and allocation of tuners.
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> > When I run through the normal path on my HDHomerun Prime, which is
> > connected via cable card to my CATV feed, It discovers 25 ATSC
> > Terrestrial channels and it cannot tune anything. Further, there are
> > three HD Homeruns on the network, the prime, connected to my CATV feed
> > with CableCard, A Connect, and a Quattro both connected to two
> > different antennas. When I first set things up, I had trouble
> > discriminating between the three devices. I'm hoping to use the --hdhr
> > option in the External tuner to forcibly bind an input connection to a
> > programming source.
> >
> > I'm in the Hartford, CT broadcast area on the border of the NYC
> > broadcast area. The CATV company frequently plays games with the
> > broadcasters around here, periodically turning off the CATV feed for
> > some channel that I can pick up via antenna. I'm trying to insulate
> > myself from such disputes and walk, not run away from CATV.
> >
> You should be able to assign them to separate "capture cards" and then 
> associate the separate "capture cards" with different inputs. As I see 
> it the only restriction is that all tuners on one HDHR use the same 
> input and listings source. I used to have a setup with separate tuners 
> and listing sources back when basic channels on cable were not encrypted 
> and a separate tuner could get the encrypted ones.
> 
> I only have one hdhr so I can't test it, but let me know what the 
> problem is with that.
> 

So, for giggles, before I decided to move to my "real setup" I decided
to just add both HD Homerun Connect to the "working" HD Homerun
prime. After adding the Connect, I can use the frontend to watch
content from the connect but I can't see content from the Prime. I get
this error in my mythbackend log:

     2022-07-12 12:45:11.538441 W [3868/3868] CoreContext scheduler.cpp:221 (VerifyCards) - Scheduler: Listings source 'Optimum Cablebox' is defined, but is not attached to a card input.


     ...


     2022-07-12 12:46:47.555097 I [3868/3891] TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:1088 (HandleStateChange) - TVRec[1]: Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2022-07-12 12:46:47.555772 I [3868/3891] TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3704 (TuningFrequency) - TVRec[1]: TuningFrequency
2022-07-12 12:46:47.556641 E [3868/3891] TVRecEvent recorders/hdhrstreamhandler.cpp:481 (TunerSet) - HDHRSH(132744DE-0): DeviceSet(vchannel 3): ERROR: invalid virtual channel


What do we make of this?

-- Chris


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Chris

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