Martin Bene wrote:
2. I want dual tuners, but don't want to hassle with 2 boxes. If I
connect a digital box with an IR blaster (giving me channels 2-78
analog, and 100-300+ digital), and I have a second tuner card with
just analog cable (2-78) coming in, can MythTV be configured to
handle this? Recording digital channels would need to default to the
first tuner, but the first tuner would also need to be able to
record analog stations, in the event that 2 analog stations needed
to be recorded at the same time. I understand that I cannot have
dual tuners on digital stations. This is ok, as I record very little
from the digital stations.
I'm using a somewhat similar setupwith mythtv 0.16: I've got two
(DVB-S) sat receiver cards; both connected to the same dish. Both can
receive the free channels, but only one has a CAM Module for premiere
pay tv.
Setup
1st card (DVB-0) ==> Card without crypto.
2nd card (DBV-1) ==> Card with crypto.
1st video source ==> free channels
2nd video source ==> pay-tv
Usig the gui, you can only enter a single cardinput for each card -
internaly myth is just fine with multiple entries however; you just
have to add them manually.
Card1 ==> free channels
Card2 ==> free channels
Card2 ==> pay tv
Having the "free only" card first makes it the default, so it gets
used first for channels it can handele and leaves the 2nd card free to
handle concurrent requests for pay tv channels.
Setup works just fine for scheduled recordings; watching live tv gives
some trouble however - if life tv starts un the 1st card it won't
switch to a pay-tv channel on the other card (channel number just gets
ignored). I have to manually witch reciecver cards to get to the pay
tv channels. Then again, I find I don't really watch life tv anyway
given the recording capabilities of the myth system.
Bye, martin
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Im with Bright House Networks in Florida, USA, use to be Time Warner,
and periodically they do update the firmware and the box will end up in
the off state. That usually happens so late tho, 2 or 3 AM, that Im
either alseep and not recording anything at that time, or Im just
comming home and Im gonna watch TV anyways, so I turn it on. I wouldnt
let this one thing keep you from using MythTV. How often do you get
updates? Daily/weekly? I get it maybe once a month or so...so its not
THAT big of a deal, plus Im not recording any infomercials that are
usually on at that time anyways. I cant think of one instance in over a
year of using MythTV with my Cable Box that Ive had an issue with the
box being off as a result of a firmware upgrade. Now, power outages and
hurricanes, yes they have all killed the power to my cable box/mythtv
box plenty of times in the last year and I think that I missed a few
shows.....but when your worried about hurricane #4 hitting you, you
kinda loose perspective on using MythTV hehe.
Tom E. Craddock, Jr
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