[mythtv-users] Nova-T and a PVR-250?

[Steve Christall]

Hi,

I have a PVR350 + Nova T in the UK, with the 350 plugged into sky.

IIt is a little tricky, but essentially you duplicate the channels that 
you have two sources for, in my case the PVR350 was installed first so 
it has a source id of one.  My DVB card has source id of two.  So for 
example I have BBC1 with source ID1 and BBC1 with ID2.

You have to pull the channel info down from your transmitter to get the 
PIDs for the video and audio, and link the DVB channels info with the 
actual channels.  There is a perl script to do it.  
channels.conf-import.pl I think, although you have to hack it a little 
with paths, source etc.

Also you have to import the listings data twice, once for each source 
id.  I have two configs, one for the sky channels and one for the dvb. 
(I could be doing this wrong, but works for me)  Run through cron, eg

tv_grab_uk_rt --config-file Sky.xmltv --output skylistings.xml
tv_grab_uk_rt --config-file DVB.xmltv --output dvblistings.xml
mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 skylistings.xml
mythfilldatabase --file 2 -1 dvblistings.xml

Finally getting Myth to use the tuner you want is a bit quirky.  
Traditionally it seems to prefer using the first installed tuner for 
live TV.  There is a new switch in 0.16, something like "Use the Best 
Tuner"?!  but it never seemed to work that well for me.  I guess this 
switch chooses the tuner with the most channels (which it the same as 
the first one for me) ..... anyone know for sure?

For me the only problem is if you are watching live TV on the PVR on say 
BBC1, and Myth wants to record Sky1 .... it will turf you out (with the 
usual requestor)  You will just have to wait for the recording to start, 
back out and go back into live tv .. it will now use source2.

Other than that it works fine.  It can record two channels at once and I 
can even watch a third previously recorded item at the same time

HTH's
Steve



Garry Gibson wrote:

>I'm in the UK and have a perfectly working MythTV setup, using a
>PVR-250, a Sky digibox with a redeye IR transmitter controlling it.
>
>Obviously, as everything is working fine, now is the time to mess with things! 
>
>I'm thinking of adding a DVB-T card in there as well, so we can record
>one thing whilse watching another, or record two programs at once.
>
>I know Myth can cope with multiple cards, but how will it manage with
>the fact that some channels will be on the PVR-250 (Sky movies etc)
>and will need the redeye IR doofer to turn over, and that some
>channels will be on both?
>
>Can anyone offer any pearls of wisdom, even if it's "don't do that mate!" ?
>
>Regards,
>
>Garry.
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