[mythtv-users] SVN 8625 Tuner Status strangeness

[Bruce Markey]

Tom Lichti wrote:
> Steve Adeff wrote:
>> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 15:23, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>   
>>> On 01/17/06 22:42, Steve Adeff wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:28, Chris Pinkham wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>>> Tuner Status says Tuner 3 is recording, but the file being written is
>>>>>> 2068_blah, so wouldn't that mean its Tuner 2?
>>>>>>           
>>>>> No, the 2068 is the chanid.  This is probably the second source you
>>>>> setup (whether you have 2 or had 1 and deleted it and added another).
>>>>>         
>>>> So source and tuner are not the same... strange, but I guess it doesn't
>>>> really matter. I'll just have to remember 2 and 3 are backwards.
>>>>       
>>> Source as in "video sources" as in channel lineups.  Has nothing to do
>>> with capture cards/tuners/inputs.  I have one source and 2 capture cards
>>> and set up a box with one source and 4 capture cards.  Every one of my
>>> recordings (and every recording on the 4 card box) starts with "1" (i.e.
>>> 1009_xxx, 1035_xxx) regardless of which tuner records them.

My thought was that it would be strange to screw a list of channels
into a PCI slot or get TV listings for Hauppauge ;-).

> So I've got 4 different sources for 4 different cards (with the same 
> analog lineup) for nothing? I'm sure I tried it with one source and it 
> didn't work. What am I missing?

My analog source is CoxCable. Once I created that source I could choose
it for each analog input I added. I have another source for CoxDigital.
When I set up the input for the cable box, I chose that. All the analog
TV inputs share sourceid 1 for the CoxCable listings.

--  bjm