Hi All.
I want to have a a group of TV channels accessible by both my tuners. I'm hoping to switch from GB-PVR to MediaPortal and this is the only thing left in my way!!
I've successfully got MediaPortal working with my PVR500MCE TV card. I'm using XMLTV for my guide.
1 tuner receives it's signal from my Sky box via a composite (priority =1) input while the other uses the antenna (priority = 2).
I can recieve 4 channels with the antenna, but I want to have the option of receiving these channels with the Sky box too, as well as the remaining Sky channels. The idea here is that the Sky tuner is the one that's used the most and has a higher priority, and when 2 things are on at the same time, the antenna can be used.
Using the TV1 channel as an example - I've been able to access this channel on both tuners by creating a channel called "TV1" which is setup to use the external Sky box and another called "TV1 a" which uses the antenna. These show up in TV guide in MediaPortal and I can select all channels and they work correctly with the relevant tuner - but since you have to name your channels the same as what's in the tvguide.xml output of XMLTV, there are no listings for "TV1 a".
So, I thought I could name both to "TV1" and it would automatically use the tuner which I'd given the highest priority to - the Sky one. Instead, it doesn't like this. I even tried creating 2 channel groupings - Analog and Digital and placing the relevant channels in each option. Still no luck.
It seems to me that it doesn't know how to tell that the 2 "TV1" channels are different, even though it's obvious, given that they're assigned to different tuners and have different sources.
I was wondering is there a way around this? How do people usually set their channels up for situations like this? Surely the answer isn't to just use 1 tuner for my antenna channels and the other for the remaining Sky ones? In theory, I should be able to record TV1 on both tuners simultaneously.
I'd appreciate any help on this issue as I'm really keen to use this as my main PVR software
Cheers.
I want to have a a group of TV channels accessible by both my tuners. I'm hoping to switch from GB-PVR to MediaPortal and this is the only thing left in my way!!
I've successfully got MediaPortal working with my PVR500MCE TV card. I'm using XMLTV for my guide.
1 tuner receives it's signal from my Sky box via a composite (priority =1) input while the other uses the antenna (priority = 2).
I can recieve 4 channels with the antenna, but I want to have the option of receiving these channels with the Sky box too, as well as the remaining Sky channels. The idea here is that the Sky tuner is the one that's used the most and has a higher priority, and when 2 things are on at the same time, the antenna can be used.
Using the TV1 channel as an example - I've been able to access this channel on both tuners by creating a channel called "TV1" which is setup to use the external Sky box and another called "TV1 a" which uses the antenna. These show up in TV guide in MediaPortal and I can select all channels and they work correctly with the relevant tuner - but since you have to name your channels the same as what's in the tvguide.xml output of XMLTV, there are no listings for "TV1 a".
So, I thought I could name both to "TV1" and it would automatically use the tuner which I'd given the highest priority to - the Sky one. Instead, it doesn't like this. I even tried creating 2 channel groupings - Analog and Digital and placing the relevant channels in each option. Still no luck.
It seems to me that it doesn't know how to tell that the 2 "TV1" channels are different, even though it's obvious, given that they're assigned to different tuners and have different sources.
I was wondering is there a way around this? How do people usually set their channels up for situations like this? Surely the answer isn't to just use 1 tuner for my antenna channels and the other for the remaining Sky ones? In theory, I should be able to record TV1 on both tuners simultaneously.
I'd appreciate any help on this issue as I'm really keen to use this as my main PVR software
Cheers.