[mythtv-users] is this possible (multiple tuners and sources)
Dylan Keon
dbkeon.ml at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 20:44:36 UTC 2005
On 08/10/2005 12:11 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>
>> Howard Cokl wrote:
>>
>>> Dylan Keon wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a working MythTV system (FC3, ATRPMS) with two PVR-250s. I
>>>> added a PVR-150 tonight, upgraded to the latest kernel and ivtv
>>>> 0.3.6w, and I can get video via the PVR-150 (no sound, though). My
>>>> goal is to have the two PVR-250s record analog cable (already
>>>> working), and the PVR-150 record OTA broadcast signals via my
>>>> rooftop antenna since the reception of local channels stinks on our
>>>> analog cable.
>>>>
>>>> I set up a new video source called "antenna" and configured a new
>>>> "local broadcast" channel listing for my area at zap2it. However,
>>>> it's not clear to me how this will get handled in the EPG. For
>>>> example, channel 7 on analog cable is Discovery, while channel 7 on
>>>> broadcast is PBS. After running mythfilldatabase these both appear
>>>> in the EPG, but where channels are the same (i.e., channel 9 is the
>>>> same station on both cable and OTA), there is only one entry in the
>>>> EPG.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What you need to do is go into the Channel Editor (either in
>>> mythtv-setup or mythweb) and change the channel number. In my case I
>>> have channel 7 (pvr250 connected to directv), channel 7-1 (wintv-go
>>> OTA NTSC) and 7HD (pchdtv 3K).
>>
>>
>>
>> You can also drop channel 7 in zap2it from the PVR-250 lineup so that
>> there is only one channel 7 since the other channel 7 has such bad
>> reception anyways.
>>
> Sorry for the self reply. Ignore my response. I missed the part where
> you said that 7 was different stations on different sources.
Heh, no problem. If you had said channel 9 you would be right :-) I
may do some of this in addition to configuring Input Preference.
--Dylan
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