I am not at the machine to try this: is it possible to just renumber the cards within the database? e.g, the cardid field in a number of tables. What else?
BillK On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 20:42 -0800, Bruce Markey wrote: > Michael T. Dean wrote: > > William Kenworthy wrote: > > > >> I have a system with a DVB-T card and the composite input of an old > >> analog tuner card connected to a foxtel STB. How do I get the system to > >> default to the DVB-T card for live tv? It always starts with the analog > >> card? > >> I also want to get the analog tuner up and running again, and ran into > >> the same problem - it looks like this card always takes priority over > >> the better quality DVB-T card (same channel content). From what I can > >> see, the only priorities are to do with recording. > >> > >> > > mythtv-setup (not frontend Setting), Input Preferences. > > Nope. Input preference has no impact on live tuner selection. > > For live, by default it chooses an available card with the same > hostname as the requesting frontend. If none, it chooses the lowest > numbered cardid that is available. If none it shows a warning message. > The default input for the chosen card is initially used. Pressing > "Y" switches to the next higher available card and wraps after the > highest number. If I have five card and I'm sitting at the host for > card 4 while card 2 is in use, it will pick card 4. "Y" changes to > 5. "Y' again goes to 1 and again goes to 3. > > If the avoid conflict with the scheduler is checked, it ignores > hostnames and chooses the highest numbered card available. "Y" still > counts up and wraps. > > For recording, for a the same showing with the same priority score, > it choose the lowest numbered cardinputid available for the sourceid > of the channel. It there are two single input cards for one video > source, the input on card 1 will be chosen unless there is a higher > priority show already assigned then it will choose card 2. If the > Input preference is higher for cardinputid 2, the showing for card > 2 is considered first (priority +1) before the showing on card 1 > (priority +0). Therefore the episode wins the spot on the preferred > card 2 before the same showing on card 1 is ever considered. > > -- bjm > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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