[mythtv-users] Firewire channel change for SA4200?

Rodney Morris rodamorris at gmail.com
Thu Jan 21 13:30:16 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Rodney Morris <rodamorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>MythTV's internal firewire channel changer should work with your
>>>SA4200.  MythTV's internal channel changer works very well with my
>>>SA3250HD, which I set-up as a SA4200 in MythTV.  (My SA3250HD had to
>>>be setup as a HD4200 under Myth to properly change channels.)
>>
>> Where/how did you set that up?  The only thing I can find in mythsetup is a
>> reference to an external channel changer under input settings.  Did a google
>> search on mythtv channel changer and only found reference to external
>> channel changers.
>>
>
> To use Myth's channel changer on my SA3250HD, I (1) added a firewire
> capture device, setting the STB model to SA4200, and (2) left the
> external channel changer entry blank under the input sources menu.
> That's all I had to do to use MythTV's internal channel changer.
>

I just noticed an error in my directions.  I left the external channel
changer entry blank under the *input connections* menu, not the *input
sources* menu.  Sorry for the error.


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