Multiple Analog Tuners with different inputs for Cable/Satellite Set Top Boxes (1 Viewer)

[twemperor]

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This might be an esoteric setup, but I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts or advice.

I have 2 Satellite Set-Top Boxes (HD) that I would like to use with my analog tuners. I only have 1 HD-PVR (for now), so I would like to keep using an SD Analog tuner with the other STB. However, when setting up my channels, it appears that for the Analog Tuning Parameters I can only specify one input (such as S-Video or Component Input) per channel. I would like to specify this information per tuner, as I use Component Input on one analog tuner and S-Video on the other. I tried putting information for both analog tuners in the same channel (combining channels), but this seemed to confuse both tuners (using the wrong information).

Do all my analog tuners have to use the same input for the Set Top Box? Or do I need multiple channel lineups?

Thanks!

 

[Andrew H]

I think I understand... EACH of your capture cards is available in the TV-Server and has to have channels mapped to them... I'd think if you create all of your channels in the channels section and then map the ones you want to capture from only the STB you want that should work. Don't you have a similar setup situation in getting the blaster to tune the correct STB to the channel you want to record? I mean, you have to BLAST the HD STB and then RECORD using the HD-PVR using its component input... conversely you have to BLAST the SD STB and RECORD using an analog caputur tuner card via S-Video. How did you get the BLASTing part working?

 

[twemperor]

I think I understand... EACH of your capture cards is available in the TV-Server and has to have channels mapped to them... I'd think if you create all of your channels in the channels section and then map the ones you want to capture from only the STB you want that should work. Don't you have a similar setup situation in getting the blaster to tune the correct STB to the channel you want to record? I mean, you have to BLAST the HD STB and then RECORD using the HD-PVR using its component input... conversely you have to BLAST the SD STB and RECORD using an analog caputur tuner card via S-Video. How did you get the BLASTing part working?

The channel changing was actually quite easy- I use serial tuning and just specify different COM ports for each of the tuners. What I can do, as a work around, is define two completely different channels with the same Guide Data, but different analog tuning settings. However, then I have duplicates in my guide.