[mythtvnz] two skysstar cards

[Steve Hodge]

On Dec 10, 2007 8:36 PM, Andrew Ruthven <andrew at etc.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 17:17 +1300, Steve Hodge wrote:
>
> > The reason you are getting conflicts is probably because Myth doesn't
> > realise that the channels on the two different video sources are in
> > fact the same channels. You should have two Capture Cards setup up
> > (one for each Skystar), but only one Video Source ("Satellite" or
> > "Freeview" or whatever). In Input Connections both Capture Cards
> > should be connected to that one Video Source.
>
> Hmmm, this is a problem I'm currently running into.  But I have FreeView
> (DVB-S of course) and good old terrestial TV as well.  I have two
> different Input Connections (PVR-250, and a SkyStar-2) and two different
> Video Sources (because the EPG channel sets are different).  The PVR-250
> has a lower ID so is currently the higher priority of the two.
>
> Sometimes scheduled recordings balance over the two, other times they
> don't.  For example, MythBusters always conflicts with Heroes, even
> though MythTV should be able to schedule the tuners so that it won't.
>

So you are going to have two copies of some channels, one for each video
source. What you need to make sure of is that the two copies both have the
same callsign and that they both have the same EPG data. If it works
sometimes it probably means your callsigns are correct but you are loading
data from two different sources and it's subtly different. For example maybe
you are using EIT for the FreeView source and downloading data for
terrestrial. One source has (for example) "Dr Who" and the other has "Doctor
Who". If the channel numbers for the two copies for the channels are also
the same (along with the callsigns) then the interface will only show one
copy of the channel and you'll never see the discrepancy.

However you're getting the EPG data, I'd advise you to get a single xml file
with all the data for all the channels you get (terrestrial and Freeview)
and load that file against all video sources.

Cheers,
Steve
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