[mythtv-users] Scheduling recordings from a satellite box

[JCA]

> An additional comment: My satellite box and my PVR-150 are
> connected via an S-Video cable. After some googling I have got the
> impression that the channel 3 I mentioned does not apply in this case
> - which makes me wonder at what point in my mythtv configuration that
> assumption is being made? Help will be most appreciated; at this
> point, I am very confused.
>
> You still need to make the satellite box change channels so you get
> the right channel.

   Thanks everybody for your feedback. There is, however, some
misunderstanding here, and I am sure that it is because I do not
understand things correctly and/or because I am not explaining clearly
what I mean. Let me try again.

   Let's assume that I am interested to record shows from a single
channel, as received in my satellite box; say, channel 295. My
satellite box will always be tuned on channel 295. I know, this is not
realistic, but please bear with me. The point I want to make is that I
do not need to change the channel that the satellite box is tuned on
at the time that the recording is due to start.

   OK, I now want to schedule a recording in mythtv. As I have
mentioned, using mythfrontend I select the Manage Recordings ->
Schedule -> Recordings -> Program
Guide menu. Here I can scroll down all the way to channel 295, and let
mythtv know that I want to record the show that starts at 3:00 PM,
lasting for one hour. Once this is done, I just exit from
mythfrontend.

  At 3:00PM mythbackend tries to start the recording. But it can't,
because the only video signal it gets from the satellite box is on
channel 3. mythbackend just prints out the error messages I enclosed
earlier in this thread.

  If, on the other hand, using the Program Guide menu from
mythfrontend, I specify that I want to record from channel 3, then
mythbackend is happy: When the time comes it indeed records the video
signal it is getting, which of course corresponds to channel 295 in
the satellite box, as mentioned three paragraphs above.

  This is the issue that I want to sort out. I understand that the
situation I am describing is correct if the video signal is sent from
the satellite box to the PVR-150 board in my MythTV PC by means of a
coaxial cable. Is this still true if the signal is sent by means of an
S-Video cable instead?