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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 791211" data-attributes="member: 82144">This functionality does not exist in the current code, so SD behaved as expected. SD either creates a channel, or it doesn't. It creates a channel when no existing channel can be found to link with the guide info. It doesn't create a channel when an existing channel *is* found. When SD creates channels, it creates a channel with a single tuning detail. It never adds tuning details to existing channels created by TV Server. When channels already exist in TV Server, SD takes it as a sign that TV Server knows how to tune that channel and it doesn't need any further configuration. This is an extension of the fact that SD doesn't deal in tuners. It doesn't know that you have an HD-PVR that is also capable of tuning those channels. Nor should it blindly add a tuning detail as it does when it creates channels - that tuning detail may be totally incorrect and conflict with the existing tuning details. This is totally the correct approach in my opinion.Remember that SD doesn't know this - it doesn't know anything about what tuners you have or what channels they have the ability to tune.Channels don't belong to any tuner in particular. A channel may have zero or more tuning details. When you link a channel with a tuner, TV Server uses the tuning detail type to work out how to use a given tuner to tune that channel.Example: WHRMDTAfter scanning it in with the HDHomeRun, there is a channel with a single ATSC/QAM tuning detail. TV Server configuration allows you to map that channel to any ATSC/QAM tuner because the channel has the ATSC/QAM tuning detail. If the channel also had a DVB-S (satellite) tuning detail then you could map the channel to any ATSC/QAM or satellite tuner. Coming to the situation with the HD-PVR. TV Server treats the HD-PVR as an analog device. To be able to map a channel to an analog device the channel must have an analog tuning detail. What you seem to be expecting is that SD would add an analog tuning detail to a given set of channels (or maybe all channels that SD doesn't create), but again it doesn't know what kind of tuners/devices you have available - in my opinion that is totally not the right thing for SD to do. The fact that SD can create channels that work with the HD-PVR is pure luck. Nothing more. It is not designed to do that - we know it does so we exploit the function to save you time, but the things the you're expecting it to do are things that I would consider completely outside the domain and purpose of SD.Correct - that is what you should expect. Again, the tuning details in the channels that SD creates are simply "placeholders". The fact that they work with the HD-PVR is a *huge* bonus for you because you don't have to create them manually.mm</blockquote>

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