[mythtv-users] channels on different tuners

[Patrick Oglesby]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Michael Drons <mdrons at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a PVR500 and a HDPVR.  I want to force the HDPVR never to record the non-HD channels.
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> The way I am doing it today is to create 2 video sources in mythtv-setup.  Which gives me comcast and comcastHD, both point to the same profile in schedules direct.
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> Then in mythweb I edit which channels are visible on the different video sources.
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> Is this the best way to do this?
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> Thanks, Mike
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I don't know what lineups you have in your area, but for me, I created
two different lineups in schedules direct, one for digital cable, and
one for basic analog cable.  I then only included the channels I get
for the analog, and only the clear QAM channels for the digital
lineup.

Obviously for your HD-PVR, you can record anything from your cable
box, but you can leave those channels in the lineup as a backup for
recording two things at once from the "analog" channels.

If you set up the PVR500 as the first input (or increase the priority
of the recorder), and the HD-PVR as the second, then the analog
recordings will prefer the PVR500.