Use STB to Change Channels (1 Viewer)

[hook]

How do I get MP to see only one TV channel on my STB, what I want is MP to see the channel I'm watching and every channel change I make on the STB

 

[Spragleknas]

I belive you want MP to control your STB? This is done with blasters and the MyBlaster-plugin.

For just viewing whatever is showing on the blaster, you most probably wanna connect the STB to a s-video (or (god forbidd) compositt) on your TV-card.

In setup; choose "Add CVBS/SVHS" and edit it to meet your settings.

There is no good way of importing RGB/SCART atm. UNFORTUNATLY!

 

[hook]

Forget about the blaster for the momment , How exactly should I edit the CVBS/SVHS settings

 

[Spragleknas]

TV-standard (PAL-type etc.) and perhaps country.

 

[waveslam]

Hey,
I do exactly what you are after with my Hauppuage PVR-150 and a Sky STB. From memory, when adding channels in the TV part of MediaPortal Setup, there is a button in amongst the tuner channel buttons somewhere that says something like 'CVBS/SVHS'. This adds a channel to MP with its input coming from your S-Video or Composite input port instead of the TV tuner. You can then call this channel whatever you like (say '1') and have MP set on this the whole time, so you never actually use the TV tuner on your capture card at all.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Brett

 

[waveslam]

Forgot to add: there should be no 'editing of settings' required when you add a SVHS/CVBS input like this, other than specifying whether the input is via the S-Video port or the Composite port. Again, this is all part of the standard setup screens in MediaPortal Setup.

 

[wewe]

hook:

I think what you want to do is NOT possible. You have to add ONE MP channel for EVERY STB channnel.

When then MP changes to an other channel it in the same time sends the switch command to the STB.

Staying in one channel in MP and using the MP remote to change only the STB's channel doesn't work (I think ...).

thanks+regards
WeWe

 

[Spragleknas]

waveslam: I belive you have to setup the S-videos TV-standard. Without everything turnes red (thats what happend to a friend of mine, anyway)

 

[hook]

Thanx all, the SVHS/CVBS thing did the trick I'm quite happy just changing channels with my STB remote,
The reason I'm doing it this way is because I used the autotune function and it found about 30 channels, all crap quality but now I at least have reasonable quality video