[mythtvnz] Problems with PVR Analog and DVB-S Cards

[David Lowe]

I can report some successes, thanks again - I did indeed have some
untidiness with callsigns and it was messing me up. So now recordings follow
the right priorities. But I still have one remaining issue that I cant work
out.

When I go to live TV, it always defaults to the analogue card first (which
is connected to the sky STB). This can be a nuisance because I have my STB
wired to transmit to two rooms and going to live TV changes the channel to
the starting channel, much to the annoyance of the person watching sky in
another room (and usually results in reduced waf). It would make life easier
for me if live TV just went to the DVB card by default.

Is this possible? Is it to do with the order that the cards were physically
installed?

Myusual workaround is to not use Live TV but to start recordings instead.
That's OK but not always intuitive for less technical users.

Hamish - I was just reading the wiki (
http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html#ss9.1) and I wondered if your
problem might be a mismatch between sources and hardware inputs?

- DL

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:15 PM, David Lowe <david at thistledown.co.nz>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm really hoping the experts can help... I can't help with why the
>> analogue cards aren't recording, but its also my experience that no matter
>> what you do with priorities, myth always seems to go to the analogue source
>> first, which can be a real nuisance. It even happens if I select 'prefer
>> input' in the recording settings. So actually I'm no help at all sorry other
>> than to tell you you are not alone which can sometimes be comforting :-)
>> ...but I'd love to know the answer as well...
>>
>
> This is not what I see. I have a SkyStar 2 for Freeview and a PVR150 for
> Sky output and MythTV always favors the SkyStar 2 over the PVR150 as that's
> what I've told it to do. Here are a few things to check:
> * Priorities, obviously. I have the input priority for the DVB->Satellite
> Input Connection set to +3 and PVR->Sky input connection set to 0 (your
> names will probably be different).
> * Channel setup. Each copy of a particular channel should have the same
> callsign. If you want only one copy to appear in the guide then they should
> also have the same channel number. To load EPG data properly they should
> probably have the same xmltvid.
> * EPG data - for best results make sure all copies of a particular channel
> get their data from the same source. Otherwise you might find that analogue
> channel 2 has "Scrubs" while DVB channel 2 has "All New Scrubs" and that
> will prevent the scheduler using whichever one doesn't match the title in
> the recording rule. This is true even if both copies of the channel have the
> same callsign - the scheduler still requires the EPG data to match (this is
> because in the US channels sometimes have minor differences, e.g. local news
> or programs inserted so two copies of the same channel may not be exactly
> the same).
>
> You can get this to work properly - if it's using the analogue cards by
> preference then you have something in your setup that is causing that to
> happen. For more info, consult the manual (
> http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-12.html#ss12.6), the wiki (
> http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Scheduling_Recordings), and the main user
> mailing list archive (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/
> ).
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
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