[mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR questions

[Daryl McDonald]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Ben Kamen <bkamen at benjammin.net> wrote:
> On 2013-10-18 10:18 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>> On 10/13/2013 02:41 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>>>
>>> From: "David Engel"
>>>>
>>>> The hostility in the past has been because the suggestions were to
>>>> save cardid/inputid. Those values can change when tuners are added,
>>>> removed or renumbered making them less useful. The input displaay
>>>> names can be more descriptive, so using them can solve the tuner
>>>> change problem. Of course, it's still up to the user to add
>>>> sufficiently descriptive names.
>>>
>>> And that's patently ridiculous: how often are tuners *actually* changed
>>> on production machines?  Every 3 or 4 years?
>>
>>
>> Every boot on some machines (like mine)--depending on which tuner
>> gets which number from the kernel.  I have no need for any udev or
>> other rules to lock a physical card to a specific kernel number
>> because every single one of my cards is "identical" (meaning they're
>> all DVB-API cards that are attached to the same Video
>> Source)--despite being 5 distinct physical cards from 2 manufacturers
>> with 3 models of card.
>
>
> As a sidenote: I did run a setup for a while using one tuner for Cable
> (before Clear-QAM went away) and one on a OTA connection.
>
> Now I have an HDHR-prime with a CC installed, so any tuner cards will now
> all be OTA.
>
> At some point, I was contemplating multiple OTA antennae because my stations
> are in different directions..
> but that's a project for another day.
>
>  -Ben
>
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 At some point, I was contemplating multiple OTA antennae because my stations
> are in different directions..
> but that's a project for another day.

I have a home made multi-directional HD antenna mounted 5' above my
roof-top, works great for all my available channels. It is essentially
two pairs of antennae facing eight directions, north, north-east,
east, south-east, south, south-west, west, and north-west the right of
each connected to the ground of the coax and the left to the carrier.
Originally an indoor unit I would get pixelation when traffic went by
my house, now with elevation it is rock solid.