[mythtv-users] Two Cards with Overlapping Channels

[Tim Dodge]

Quoting Hamish Moffatt <hamish at cloud.net.au>:

> On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:46:09PM +0100, Tim Dodge wrote:
> > I have a Nova-T DVB card working in my mythbackend, and am about to
> add
> > a PVR-250 card.
> >
> > I'm in the UK, so the 5 analogue channels the PVR-250 will be able
> to
> > pick up are already included in the set of channels the DVB card
> picks
> > up.
> >
> > Is it possible to configure both cards to use the same set of
> channels,
> > or will I have to have separate digital and analogue version of the
> > same channel?
>
> I haven't tried this myself, but since nobody else replied:
>
> >From my reading of this list and -dev, you will need to create a
> video
> source for each card, each with their own set of channels. However,
> if
> you set the callsign of a channel to be the same for the analog and
> digital versions, Myth should recognise that they are the same.
> Then you will not see duplicate channels in the program guide, and
> Myth
> can use either to record from etc.
>
> In my setup I have two DVB-T cards on free-to-air, so I use the same
> video source for each.
>
> Hamish
> --
> Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>
>

Thanks, that worked a treat.

I also needed to set the same channel numbers on both digital and
analogue tuners, otherwise mythweb couldn't work out the channel name.

Tim