[mythtv-users] Mythweb, switching between lineups

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Sep 8 18:22:31 UTC 2010


  On 09/08/2010 10:15 AM, bhaskins wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> Oh, and it sounds like you need 2 MythTV video sources--one for your 
>> digital capture card, and one for your analog encoder cards.  You 
>> only need one Schedules Direct account.  You may need one or 2 
>> different Schedules Direct lineups--depending on whether the channels 
>> included in the 2 video sources are from the same provider or not 
>> (i.e. all the digital cable package or all OTA or ...).
> Sorry to even ask about this,

That's what we're here for.  :)

> this answer must exist online somewhere but I just can't find it.
> I have/want/need four different Schedules Direct lineups, ( 4 sources ).
> Some channels exist on one lineup/source, some on another, some on 
> all, etc.

Note that you would only need 4 lineups if you have 4 different 
providers of video.  For example, if you had OTA digital, analog cable, 
and digital cable, that would be 3 providers.

If, instead, you have 1 provider--digital cable--you only need one 
lineup, regardless of whether all the channels in that lineup are 
available via every input.  So, say you were using digital cable 
directly with a QAM tuner on one input, firewire output from an STB on 
another input, and--so you can get even the channels that the STB won't 
output via firewire--analog output from an STB to another input.  That 
would require exactly one Schedules Direct lineup.

However, it would require 3 different MythTV video sources.  The lineup 
becomes the superset of channels available across all inputs, and each 
MythTV video source specifies which of those channels can be used with a 
particular input.

See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/440637#440637

> Is there a way to switch between lineups under mythweb?
> Or is there another, better way to do this.
> I do almost all of my program selection, setup under mythweb which
> (IMHO)  is one of the greatest features in mythtv.

I'm not sure what you mean by switching lineups in MythWeb.

MythWeb (and mythfrontend) will show all the available channels, 
regardless of lineup/video source/input, when showing the EPG.  The one 
qualifier is that users can choose to tell the EPG to "coalesce" 2 
channels into one.

If 2 channels have identical content, you can assign the same callsign 
to those channels to tell the MythTV scheduler to treat the 2 channels 
as the same (so that either channel can be used for "this channel" rules).

If 2 channels have the same callsign (because they have identical 
content), you can tell the EPG to display the channel only once by 
assigning the same channel number to both channels.

Both callsign and channel number are user-editable data that can be 
changed in the channel editor (ideally through mythtv-setup, as there 
may be issues with the frontend and MythWeb channel editors right now).

Mike


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