Recording shows on specific tuner?? How to?

[agover]

Hi All,

I have recently added a new HD-PVR to my existing system.
At present I have 2 atsc tuners, 1 hd pvr and an older pvr250.

The problem I have is that the atsc tuners have the exact same channels as the HD pvr (the hdpvr has more channels - but it also has copies of those on the atsc tuners). The issue is that a few channels arent at all reliable over atsc - specifically NBC & FOX.

For whatever reason Sage has decided that since all the channels have the same name (and channel id) it has grouped them all together.

Im basically looking for a way to either specifically state that show X gets recorded on the hdpvr or for a way to separate the grouped channels so I can directly address the HD-PVR channels.

I know I can simply disable the effected channels on the two atsc tuners but I was hoping to keep them as standby (they are about 70-80% reliable so for unimportant things the channels would be fine).

Any ideas on how I can do this?

Ive done some searches but so far I havent found a clear answer.

Thanks

[Opus4]

You could use the mmc/encoders/###/encoder_merit properties to set up tuner priority, but that won't guarantee that the higher merit tuenr is always used for a certain channel.

Personally, if a channel can't be trusted to record properly from a tuner, I wouldn't enable it on that tuner.

- Andy

[agover]

I was thinking this was the only way - but I kept hoping... oh well I need to wait on my hdpvr to get returned anyways

Thanks Andy

[mskitty666]

You could use the mmc/encoders/###/encoder_merit properties to set up tuner priority, but that won't guarantee that the higher merit tuenr is always used for a certain channel.

Andy, please explain this too me. I went through the trouble to assign tuner merit and recording directories and they seemed to work perfectly until recently. I was infuriated that SageTV is ignoring my specifications and just doing whatever the heck it wants! I thought these properties were there to tell SageTV what to do but it's not listening.

[mskitty666]

Im basically looking for a way to either specifically state that show X gets recorded on the hdpvr or for a way to separate the grouped channels so I can directly address the HD-PVR channels.

You've probably already found the answer, but in case you haven't, you need to search the forums for threads about channel mapping. I used the information to create six lineups for my four tuners. It involved setting up my atsc tuners to use a very nearby lineup with the same channels available in my city then I remapped the logical number to be near the SD channel in the guide. For my cable box I used the digital cable lineup and deselected all analog channels. For basic cable I used the basic cable lineup deselecting any channel that I don't actually get.

The result, lets use CBS as an example. In my guide I see 6, then 6-1 HD, then 6-2 DT. When the digital tuner is recording a show on CBS I see it marked on 6-1. When it records analog it is marked on 6. It never uses the cable box to record CBS because I have disabled it in the digital lineup. Is this what you're trying to accomplish?