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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 751678" data-attributes="member: 82144"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />Exactly. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Some people are okay with situating the STB close enough to the HTPC that they can directly change channels on the STB and have the one channel in MP. That works okay for live TV watching, however that won't get you guide info in MP (which is sometimes annoying in its own right), and the lack of guide info makes scheduling recordings very unfriendly unless you do it within the STB (which in some ways defeats the purpose of hooking everything up to a central HTPC in the first place)...Excellent - that is a *big* step in the right direction. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I can sorta still help you with this part. What you've done is basically chosen option 2 or 3 (as described earlier) for your channel setup. You have your guide data source sorted. To see that guide data you have to create and map channels in MP to channels in the guide. If you don't already know about it then I think --><a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/141_Configuration/TV-Server_Configuration/13_Plugins/XmlTv" target="_blank">this</a><-- XMLTV wiki page will help you understand that part a little better. As a test, you could theoretically map the YRYBY channel to any one of the channels available from the guide, save the mapping, reimport the tvguide.xml, and then see guide data (allow a couple of minutes for MP to update the DB with the data).If you can get your head around that then hopefully you might understand what I meant about the pain of adding channels to MP. Your goal is basically to "copy, paste and rename" the YRYBY channel for each channel in the guide. The difficulty is how to do that in such a way that it doesn't take all day/night. If you're skilled in DB manipulation you could write a script to "magically" add them (option 2). Otherwise it is a case of adding them manually. It might be a good idea to see if you can create a handful of your most watched channels first just to get yourself up and running...The process is (in the TV Channel list):1. Click "add".2. Select "analog".3. Enter the name in the top box.4. Create a tuning detail.5. Set the channel number to the number that you'd want to key in on the remote if you were switching to the channel.6. Frequency is 0.7. Cable/antenna doesn't really matter. Cable probably makes more logical sense, but it has absolutely no effect for a Colossus.8. Country should be USA, although again it might not make any difference.9. The VCR input tick box doesn't seem to have any effect either.10. Select YRYBY #1 for video input.11. Select SPDIF #2 for audio input.12. Save.Then it is a case of "rinse and repeat". I hope that makes sense...</blockquote>

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