[mythtvnz] Two 500T's and Live TV

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> I decided to install 2 x 500T's, which gives me 4 mux's.
>
> When using LiveTV one can select any channel.  No problem.
>
> When a channel is recording on Mux0 one can only get, using LiveTV, the channels on that mux.
>
> I can change the LiveTV tuner, using the OSD menu, to get a tuner that's not yet committed to a mux and get all channels again,
> however other users don't understand that so well and its a nuisance to do.
>
> As we have 3 mux's here in NZ it seems sensible to use free tuner(s) for LiveTV and record on the other 3 however I've not figured
> out how one directs to the appropriate tuners/mux's by default.  (In mythweb one can manually select a tuner to record with)
>
> Ideally one wants recording mux's to start at one end (say mux3, mux2, mux1, mux0) and have FE users start LiveTV on mux0, mux1,
> mux2 etc  Obviously this is not full extensible either however it would be significantly better than how I have it now and unlikely
> to be an issue very often.
>
> Has anyone tried to do this?

This is covered a zillion times in the mythtv-users mailing list archives.


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