[mythtv-users] Using a STB for Firewire or PVR-250 input...

[Brad DerManouelian]

James Lampton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've recently made the jump to FiOS and the wonderful land of STBs.  
> I've got an HD box that I can successfully* control through Firewire (* 
> I can always get the channel to change, but they've locked me out of 
> pulling the signal out of everything but the local channels).
> 
> So, I would like to setup a video source that represents the channels I 
> can pick up via Firewire and have that be a high priority for those 
> channels, but for the majority of the channels, I would like to feed the 
> STB into one of my existing tuners (pvr-250).  Is there a way that I can 
> tell MythTV to treat the two sources of information exclusively, that is 
> either Firewire OR PVR is scheduled/used at one time not both.  I would 
> like to prevent the case where I have two recordings of the same show 
> because the STB can only tune one channel at a time.

Yes. Assign both video sources to the same input group.