Ok, hopefuly someone can help a newbie at least know if this is
even possible, or if I've gone about this the wrong way!
First, here's the background:
I've got MythTV 0.18.1 running with
a PVR-250.
I've got two Zap2It lineups, one for
a 4DTV satellite
receiver, and one for local TV.
The only input currently in use on
the PVR-250 is the coax
input. That gets me the local stations, PLUS channel 46, which is
actually the 4DTV receiver. I have a couple of stereo multi-port
modulators that I use to turn video/audio inputs into unused
antenna channels, so I can get VCR/DVD and things like that
throughout the house.
In myth-setup, here's what I've done so far:
Set up the PVR-250 as the capture card.
Defined two video sources: Antenna,
and 4DTV. The
antenna source is set up to pull the local TV listing lineup off
Zap2it. The 4DTV source is set to pull the 4DTV lineup off Zap2it.
The other video source settings I've left at their defaults.
Under input connections, I've connected
the Antenna
source to the Tuner input of the PVR-250. I haven't connected the
4DTV source to anything, since it technically is part of the antenna.
Within the Channel Editor, a created
a new channel called
4DTV:
Channel
Name: 4DTV
Channel
Number: 46
Callsign:
4DTV
Visible:
checked
Video
source: Antenna
XMLTV
ID: default (nothing)
Frequency
ID: 46
Everything else I left at their defaults
(blank usually).
Now, at this point, watching Live TV works fine. The antenna
channels show up fine, and when I go to channel 46, whatever is
currently on the 4DTV receiver appears, like it should. On the
Program Guide, both the local TV and 4DTV listings appear. So far
so good. Tuning and recording a local TV station works fine from
the Guide.
The problem is when I attempt to use the guide to tune to or record
something off the 4DTV. Now, I know that until I get an IR blaster
working and an external tuning program going, I can't have Myth
change the channel on the 4DTV reciever. At first, I'd just like to get
it so that I can use the Guide to at least record something off the
4DTV.
If I go to channel 46 on the Guide, which is the channel the 4DTV is
on, it shows "Unknown" as it's only listing, which makes sense.
BUT, if I try to set any sort of manual scheduled recording for
channel 46, MythTV refuses to schedule the recording. I have not
been able to convince MythTV to record at all from channel 46.
This kinda-sorta makes sense, since channel 46 is "unknown" to the
Guide, but why can't I at least tell it to record channel 46 from some
time to another time? I have also tried to set up manual recording
off channel 46, to no avail.
I have also tried to select a program off the 4DTV listings in the
Guide. In this case, it appears to go through the motions of setting
up the scheduled, or manual recording, but in the end it comes up
"no scheduled recordings". This makes more sense than it failing to
record channel 46, since the Guide doesn't know to switch to
channel 46 to record or watch a 4DTV channel.
So, in a nutshell, and at the very least, how do I get MythTV to
record a 4DTV show? Is there some unknown-to-me machinations I
can do through MySQL to fix the Guide or something? What I'd
really like is to be able to fix the Guide so that if I select a 4DTV
channel, it will tune the tuner to channel 46. I can get the
IR/external program thing working later (one step at a time).
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