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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 791204" data-attributes="member: 82144">I'm not sure that you've quite understood how the linking between channels and tuners works. If you add channels by scanning for them in TV Server then the tuning details and links to tuners are automatically created for you. SD can create channels and guess at tuning details, but it has absolutely nothing to do with linking channels to tuners.SD has nothing to do with tuners *at all*. When it creates channels in TV Server, they are not linked to any tuner/capture device. You have to do that manually as only you know which devices can receive each channel. That is why I specifically said:...and then...Without the first step, TV Server knows that there are channels, and it knows how to tune them, *but it doesn't know what tuners can be used to tune them*.Without the second step, TV Server know that there are channels and it knows how to tune them with *some* tuners. You have to tell it that it can also use the HD-PVR to tune them, and how they are tuned when you use the HD-PVR.Is that what you were referring to?Again, to be very clear: SD does not deal in tuners. It deals only in channels and guide info. Only you can possibly know which tuners are capable of tuning each channel, therefore SD does not even attempt to guess.Personally I think you need to separate the complexity of the HD-PVR (or indeed any blaster) setup from the SD setup - I consider SD as a tool that you're using to get guide info that *happens* to also have the ability to create channels in TV Server. If it didn't have those capabilities then you would have to create the channels, tuning details and tuner<-->channel mapping for each HD-PVR channel manually. This is a function of the fact that the HD-PVR can't scan. It isn't a tuner, therefore it has special setup requirements. The fact that SD can help you with this should be considered a bonus, but SD is not geared towards HD-PVRs any more than TV Server is.I think I understand where you're coming from. As above though, I think that expecting SD to create channels for the HD-PVR is the wrong approach. No other plugin that I know of does this - they don't need to usually. It is just the special requirements of capture devices that make that function desirable. I have some ideas myself about how we can streamline the channel creation process for such setups in TV Server...I definitely encourage you to take a look at XMLTV. If SD worked that way then I think it would be *much* easier to use.mm</blockquote>

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