TV Mapping (1 Viewer)

[geov]

Hi Trevor

Thanks for the input...if you don't mind answer the following questions I would appreciate it....

1) Do you make use of both SVHS inputs on the PVR500, you only refer to one? In my TV2 setup, card1 was configured to make use of SVHS#1 and Card2 was configured to make use of SVHS#2.
2) Do both of your Sat-STB's have the same channels, because mine do?
3) If Point-1 and Point-2 above are true...then how do you tell the TV3-server that a channel (ex. MTV) is available on SVHS#1 for Card1 and SVHS#2 for card2?

From your setup it sounds like your PVR500 uses SVHS#1 for both cards....

Cheers
GeoV

 

[trevor]

GeoV,

1. I use both - each STB has the scart connected to a RGB-> SVHS converter box, giving SVHS and Audio R/L.

Best not to think about how TV2 was configured, adds confusion to the mix, I was never really sure why SVHS#2 is there as I only ever use SVHS#1.

When you setup the cards do add SVHS/VHS Channels, they are not required, I had them added for a while but never used them.

2. In answer to this question you can assume both STBs carry the same channels...that is true but in my case..but STB2 has a limited subscription which only gives me a subset of STB1s channels - makes no odds though.

3. That is done in the channel setup by setting the source to SVHS #1, all channels are set to use SVHS #1.

The best way to think of it is that the channel list is independant of the cards. Each channel name can have a number of tuning parameters associated. When mapping a channel to a card you have the full list of channels on the left, you can pick which channels are availible to which card (in your case all channels will be mapped to card 1 and card 2)

As the PVR500 is basiclly 2 x PVR150s and a PVR150 only has SVHS #1 you only need to configure the channel for SVHS #1.

Hope that has not caused more confusion....

Trevor