[mythtvnz] two skysstar cards

[Andrew Ruthven]

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 21:05 +1300, Wade Maxfield wrote:
> Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > How are others handling the two different sources of video?
> > 
> 
> I came across the same issues dealing with 2 PVR-x50 cards, 1 with 
> access to OTA, and the other with OTA + Sky via s-video.
> 
> I went the hacky route and ended up with a sql script that duplicates 
> the overlapping channels from the sky input to the OTA input. I've since 
> extended this to copy the same data to my Freeview input.  The script 
> runs just after mythfilldatabase each morning.
> 
> Doing this means that all the program descriptions also match between 
> the Sky based listing and my freeview listings (helps with duplicate 
> matching and conflicts)

I currently get the XML EPG feed, save it to a file then import it using
mythfilldatabase twice, once for each source.  And on each source the
same channels are set to use the same XML IDs.  So they should have the
same program descriptions...

Cheers!

-- 
Andrew Ruthven
Wellington, New Zealand
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