Mediaportal, sky and analogue capture (1 Viewer)

[wollo]

Because this touches on hardware and possibly software I've posted in the general forum.

I've been using MP for years now. I still think its light years ahead of the competition and I,ve tried most all of them i reckon. I'm looking for some advice from my fellow users.
I have 3x Acer Revo 36xx clients running W7 fully updated with MP1.2.0.0b and a Q6600 TVServer with W7 fully updated. The server runs only TVServer and is reliable. I have 1x PVR350 for sky capture through svhs on my Grundig digibox (White sky card)with a usbuirt for control and a Nova s2 card for freesat. I'm using DJBlu's wonderfull plugin for epg however mapping the analogue channels on the PVR350 to the Nova S2 channels for EPG is a minor hassle so I'm wondering:

do many of you have a similar setup with analogue and digital capture cards mixed?
how do you get your epg?
is there a better way to do this with digital capture of encrypted sky channels for wich I hold a valid subscription?

many thanks for reading

 

[mcraenz]

Have you had a look at the EPG only mapping option. Is this an option for you?

Mapping - MediaPortal Wiki

 

[wollo]

Sorry for the late reply, been on holiday. Yes I am using epg only mapping. along with the custom data grabber i'm having good sucess now. adding 597 analogue channels by hand every time is a hassle but hey ho worth the effort until I find a better solution.

 

[mm1352000]

Oh mate! 597?!? Is there a reason that you aren't able to use the import/export function to save yourself some pain? In any case, you might want to read -->this thread<--. A white Sky card is apparently not the end of the world...

 

[wollo]

I used to use export then import but with DJBlu's excellent epg grabber import export only seems to mess up my channels. Many thanks for the link I'm off to read it now

 

[Jay_UK]

Wollo,

If you need some assistance with Sky and MePo drop me a PM.

J.

 

[wollo]

Jay, thanks man. what I'm thinking of doing now is using two refurbished Firedvbs I got from digital everywhere and buying a 1U atom barebones. That will let me keep the system in my specs running while I test. I'll be in touch within a couple of weeks for sure. I'm still reading through the link above and planning.