[mythtv-users] tuner numbering

[Roger Siddons]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:41:08 -0000, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hoi Chris,
>
> Monday, February 24, 2014, 8:17:44 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On 24/02/14 18:39, Mike Bibbings wrote:
>>> On 24/02/14 18:03, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>>>> Greetings Mythizens, recordings have been hit and miss lately, and I
>>>> finally realized that it is not my antenna, it is the random tuner
>>>> numbering done at boot-up. I do have UDEV rules in place for all the
>>>> cards, but the only one that stays with the symlink name is the analog
>>>> card, the dvb cards won't open in "input connections" after inserting
>>>> the symlink name, or they pop back to "adapter(0or1)/frontend0" if I
>>>> re-select them in "Capture Cards".

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>
> A thought about the udev simlink not being accepted by mythtv. I
> myself only have analog so I cannot test.
> If I understood right, by default for every dvb adapter a directory
> adapter[1-7] is created in dev, which contains several device nodes.
> Among them frontend0. The name frontend to me suggests it's a kind of
> portal to the other device nodes. If you only create a udev simlink
> for the frontend node, it might not be able to find the other device
> nodes.
> So my suggestion is to create udev simlinks for all device nodes and
> group them by card in a directory. Give the directory a unique name
> for every card and give the device nodes the same name as before.
>
> Tot mails,
> Hika mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>

Correct. That was my suggestion at  
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/562186?#562186

Fixing adapter numbers is a simple solution if you don't swap tuners about  
and can remember what each adapter is months/years later. Personally I  
like to see my own symlink names in the dialog.
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