[mythtv-users] UK DVB Tuning Nightmare

[Simon Hobson]

Fluf wrote:

>I think a chunk of my difficulties came from starting with an 
>omnidirectional aerial in an overlap zone.

Indeed, that won't help. A good directional antenna would probably 
help enormously, though you would probably still have to somehow 
prevent auto-tuning of the muxes you don't want.

Luckily up here the repeaters are all down in teh 30's and 40's, 
while our main channels don't start until the the high 50's or 60's. 
So when tuning my mates Freeview boxes I just pull the aerial lead 
until it's got into the 50's.


>For the moment I've given up trying to add the others because I've 
>finally managed to get Mendip (though in theory I could add all of 
>Wenvoe as a backup for muxs going down).

Wouldn't help. Myth doesn't deal with "this mux isn't tuning so I'll 
try another" - you just get empty recordings if a transmitter is off 
(not that it happens all that much).
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