STB and Analogue

[samsonious]

I'm using TV Server RC1 and would like to set it up with my STB. As my Server machine isn't near the STB i would like to use the RF output on the STB to input into my Server.

This part works but its my understanding that the "external" channel setting was removed and its just assumed to be external if not tuner. Enter my problem, i need to use the tuner not cvbs or svhs.

Irblaster and a mix of sat-channels and FTA channels

Suggests that it was something that worked in the past, but since the external flagging was removed the functionality was also removed.

Looking at the channel setup in the database there is a column for external id but is this EPG related rather than external source related?

Any suggestions?

I'm suprised this isnt affecting more people as it seems like a fairly common situation. GBPVR supports this but i REALLY REALLY like everything about mediaportal (including the opensource aspect).

Could anyone with mediaportal developing experience advise as to whether this functionality could be added by means of a plugin, like a customized external changer plugin that uses a different field/repository for STB channels and all the channels are simply set to the same tuner channel? I'd happily put the time in to create this plugin if it was possible.

Thanks

[-999-]

I have this exact same issue. Others work right out of the box (gbpvr, sage, etc) but like said MediaPortal doesn't. I as well use the tuner, so there's no way that I've seen to make this function correctly. If you setup the channels manually as described in that thread or this one tve3+stb+blaster+capture+svideo , it changes them on the stb like it's supposed to, but it also changes it on the tuner so not so much worky.

Like said before other pvr programs don't have this issue, and it seems the previous versions had an external tab for this, but rc1 does not, and while I could use others, I also really like the way everything else works in MP.

[samsonious]

I'm making some progress with a custom plugin, but as there is no dedicated field to store the channel im playing around with different methods to get the external channel number across. As i am not using the externalID field in the channel table i was hoping to use that but from what i can tell it isn't passed and i'm trying to avoid extra database calls.

Another way to go would be to have an extra lookup database in SQLite or similar but again i'd rather not have an extra calls. I could quite easily make the external number be part of the channel name and rip that from the channel name but that will make the channel names look messy so i'd also like to avoid this.

My current exploration is using the channel tables CountryID field. This means no special reads etc and works really well with a few test channels i created. I then added 999 to test an upper limit (my STB channels are 3 digits) and it fails. I had put this down to the ID not matching a country as its cross referenced so i spent a good while trying to track down where the countries reside. They seemed hard coded so i checked the source and tracked them down but a quick test at adding a fake country with Id of 999 still fails so i'm not quite sure whats missing at the moment.

Anyone of the developers with a better understanding of how it peices together shed any light on this?

Will post updates if i manage to get a reliable setup working.

*edit*

Was thinking about it wrong, now have it working using the countryID. It was failing as the ID is used to index the array, so 999 was out of the bounds of the array. Just updated the countries to contain an even 1000 and its all good