On Thursday 05 January 2006 10:26, R. G. Newbury wrote: > Byron Poland wrote: > >On 1/3/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>So I've got three sources from the same cable company, am I doomed to > >> have to have 3 logins? > >> > >>1: HD Digital Cablebox via Firewire > >>2: SD Digital Cablebox via PVR-150 > >>3: pcHDTV HD3000 cia QAM > >> > >>all from Comcast. Now, each source requires its own specific channel > >> lineup and all three require a "Digital Cable" lineup to be selected. > >> > >>The easiest would be to setup 1 zap2it source for all three and somehow > >> tell Myth which tuner gets what channels. But I don't think this is > >> possible. > > > >See if you can pick a neighboring zip code that has the same services. > > I seem to remember doing this to try and circumvent some multiple > >lineup issues, I don't remember my exact issues they could of been > >related to OTA stuff. > > I think you only need 2 different lineups at zap2it. > I have ONE logon at zap2it and TWO different lineups. One lineup is > just 'Cable'. The other is 'Digital'. > Your PVR150 card will use the 'Cable' source. > Your Digital channels should be handled by the Myth database. > You may be able to use the 'other zip-code' trick, but I think that that > will fail unless you set up a different login. (I haven't tested but I > thought that Myth could handle a different login for an alternate > source. The problem is the zap2it end: one login allows only one lineup > of each type, cable, digital, or broadcast.) > > You should be able to get all of the digital channels working properly > from the one digital lineup. > To get QAM working you have to set up the dtv_mulitplex table and then > enter the channel PID (as the serviceid) in the channel database. > Search gossamer threads for a topic heading starting with "Sweet! PC > HD..." for links on how to get that done. > > When you select a show, Myth uses the database and searchs to find the > channel, and parses out the hardware source (and serviceid to give to > the hardware) and the frequency in order to tune the proper piece of > hardware. > In this case the source will be either #1 or #3, and it will always > internally 'tune' to the fixed channel while outputting an IR > change-channel signal to the cablebox for any channel mapped to #1. At > least that's how it appears it should work. And people have reported > here that the two parts of this do work separately. In fact, I'm doing > the 'source #3' part of that now with my PVR500 and HD3000. Your setup > is different only in using the 'same' digital source for different > tuners depending on the channel, but it should work. > > You have an advantage in that you can use the cablebox to discover the > PIDs for all of the digital channels, so it will be a little easier for > you to set up the HD3000 card's database entries. You may want to get > phpMyAdmin running on your box, as this requires some mysql database > bit-bashing which is a lot easier to do with a hand holding gui. > > Geoff
except that my hdtv cable box gets a different set of channels than my non-hdtv digital cable box which is a different set of channels that my DVB card can receive. If I could, I would have one lineup and tell MythTV which channels from the lineup each input is actually able to receive, but from what I understand there is no way to do this as the visible setting will still let Myth try and record a channel a source might not have. -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
