Help with 3 tuners but only one working (1 Viewer)

[JacobJust]

HI all

Im looking for a solution on my littele problem.

When using TVserver and MediaPortal and recording one channel it says all other channels are unavailable.

I have 3 FireDTV tuners ... someone with some input how to get it working ....

Everything else working fine.

Regards

 

[Marcusb]

You need to map all the tuners to all the channels they can get.

When you scan the first time, all the channels that are picked up are assigned to that card, but then you need to assign the same channels to the remaining cards. Look in the "Mapping" section of the TV channels section.

 

[charli181]

the other way is to scan for channels on each card. this is where you scanned the first card, you select the next card and then scan again. Obviously this will take longer as your scans do take a while depending on how many channels you have. See here TV-Engine 0.3/config-TV-Servers - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation for scanning channels
or
here for mapping channels to cards TV-Engine 0.3/config-TV-Channels - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation as mentioned by Marcusb. Note when mapping you must select each card from the drop down box to display what channels are available for that device. For you there should be 3 in that list. It always defaults to the first card. Been caught out myself on this one.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Who in there right mind would want to manually map channels, when you can autotune next card.

Did it once never again, even with only 77 channels, what a pain (this was when tvserver kept forgetting my connected cards after resume, now fixed).

Should be made obvious in wiki, there are a couple of ways to do this.

 

[charli181]

hijacking thread

Who in there right mind would want to manually map channels, when you can autotune next card.

Did it once never again, even with only 77 channels, what a pain (this was when tvserver kept forgetting my connected cards after resume, now fixed).

Should be made obvious in wiki, there are a couple of ways to do this.

Point taken, I will do this tomorrow....sorry for hijacking your thread JacobJust

 

[JacobJust]

Hi again

Tried options with manually mapping channels to other cards - dont work - still unavaillabe other channels.

Tried option with scanning on the other cards and it finds all channels also with info UPDATED, but still not working.

Stpped service and started again, but still when recording on one channel it says all other cjannels are UNAVAILABLE.

Any idea ... or am i ready to post logs now ...

Regards

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Tried options with manually mapping channels to other cards - dont work - still unavaillabe other channels

Can you see the channels mapped to all 3 cards ok.

 

[fasuxe]

Just curious, have you tried to go into TVServer settings --> Manual Control, while your'e watching the channel, and see if all of the cards are active or if one is active and the others are idle. Maybe the TVServer starts recording that channel on all 3 of your cards. Hmm....

 

[JacobJust]

Just tried go into TV Server settings and under manual control.

It says "idle" on the other 2 cards and timeshifting on card one.

... but weird thing is that when timeshifting on card one and clicking on the tuners under TV servers all 3 cars showing FULL Signal Level and FULL Signal Quality ...


Is that correct ?

Any idea ...

Thanks

And yes ... i can see all channels mapped correctly under each card ...

 

[fasuxe]

no, im pretty sure that's not correct. If the cards arent in use, they shouldn't show any signal. At least i dont think so. Try stopping all recordings. Then under the TVServer settings, disable two of the cards. Go back to Mediaportal and start recording a channel. Then go back to the TVServer settings and enable another one of the cards. Lastly, go back into Mediaportal and try to watch a different channel while the other one is still recording. See if that works. It shouldnt, but see if it does.