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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hairlesshobo" data-source="post: 890582" data-attributes="member: 121339">OK, so here's the scenario. I have two Analog/Digital tuners (both are dual tuner). I have an antenna connected to the ATSC digital side of things and all works well. We have two of Comcast's DTA (tiny little adapter, basically mini cable box). Just out of curiosity, I plugged one in today and discovered that we actually have around 100 channels of cable instead of the roughly 13 that we thought. I want to use the two analog tuners in my HTPC to record these as well. I have confirmed that the analog tuner works fine when connected to the DTA, and I even was able to get the IRSS ST3 blaster plugin working just fine. The problem, however, is that when adding these channels, I have to specify what physical channel the DTA converter should be tuned to. The IRSS TV3 plugin uses this as the channel to blast to the DTA. This works fine, except that I am forced to connect the DTA to the tuner card using Coax because the DTAs do not have S-Video or Composite out on them. The DTAs are set to output on RF channel 3, but whenever you try to view any channel in MediaPortal other than channel 3, MP sets the DTA's channel to the correct channel, but then tunes the internal tuner to the same channel (for example, channel 9). This means that the internal tuner is looking for signal on channel 9, but there is no signal because the DTA outputs on Channel 3.  I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to force MediaPortal to NEVER change the channel of the internal tuner card, and always leave it at 3. I looked all over and have done hours of Googling without any success. I even tried VCR mode hoping that it was designed for this, but to no avail (I also could not find a definitive answer as to what VCR mode does for analog channels). If there is no way to force MP to never change the channel on a specific analog tuner, is there perhaps some way to tell MP the channel the internal tuner should be on, but then elsewhere tell the IRSS TV3 plugin where to tune to. For example, is there an option somewhere that lets MP know that the channel should be tuned externally and to separately specify the internal channel? I hope this makes sense, please let me know if you guys (and gals) need any more information. Thanks in advance! -Steve</blockquote>

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