<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Mar 5, 2007, at 2:55 PM, ryan patterson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 3/5/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">Brad DerManouelian</B> <<A href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Mar 5, 2007, at 12:58 PM, ryan patterson wrote:<BR><BR>> On my MythTV backend I have 4 HD tuners hooked up to an antenna and<BR>> one SD tuner hooked to a cable box (with irblaster control). I<BR>> only want to have Live-TV access one HD tuner. I want to reserve <BR>> the cable box tuner and three HD tuners for recording scheduled<BR>> shows. The fourth HD tuner should always be reserved for HD Live-TV.<BR>><BR>> Unfortunately I see no way to limit the tuners that are available <BR>> to live-TV. Is there any way to do what I am suggesting? As it is<BR>> now entering Live-TV sometimes selects the cable box tuner and<BR>> sometimes selects a HD tuner. This behavior is very confusing to <BR>> the geriatrics in the house.<BR>> --<BR><BR>If you order your tuners by priority (putting the one you want to use<BR>for Live TV last) and tell Myth to try to reduce LiveTV conflicts by<BR>using the tuner least likely to have a recording coming up, you will <BR>always get that last tuner unless it's actually recording something.<BR>This is probably the functionality you really want.</BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR>Actually I do want to lock out the cable box tuner from Live-TV. I already have the "reduce conflicts" thing set but it doesn't seem to work very well. MythTV offten selects the cable box tuner even though there are three idle HD tuners. <BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Is your cable box tuner set to the highest priority? If so, it should never pick that one unless the others are already in use.</DIV></BODY></HTML>