[mythtv-users] Tuner priorities

[Bruce Markey]

Rich West wrote:
> This may sound like a basic question, but I've managed to confuse myself 
> about this so I figured I would ask.
> 
> I just bought an HDHomeRun, set up the channels & etc, but I don't want 
> to record on it just yet due to my really poor placement of the POS 
> antenna I have.  I have three PVR-150's in the backend already, all with 
> a priority of "0".  If I want to have the backend use the HDHomeRun 
> tuners as a last resort, do I set the priority of the HDHomeRun tuners 
> to something like "10" or to something like "-1"?

-1. It only needs to be different by one in order to break
the tie. When you do want to test recording, go to a rule's
recording options page Scheduling Options and change "Use
any available input" to the input for the HDHomeRun.

Much more at http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-12.html#ss12.6

--  bjm