Hi everyone,<br><br><div>I have a fully working system of two frontend MythTV boxes and single backend using a Hauppauge Nova DVB-S2 card .. all works fine - live tv, recording, playback .. no problems at all.<br><br></div>
<div>I'd now like to be able to record some programmes from 'pay' channels which we receive via a subscription service on a separate DVB-S receiver, and to (hopefully!) achieve this I have added a Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1300 card that I had lying around to the backend, and this is detected correctly by the kernel on boot.<br>
<br></div><div>I have connected the composite video output from the external receiver to the input of the HVR-1300 and if I run 'tvtime' on the backend I can select it ("tvtime -d /dev/video1") and watch it with no problems, but my problem is how to configure the input to this card in Myth. I may at some point also like to also use the DVB-T input on this card, but for now I don't have a good enough antenna, so that can wait.<br>
<br></div><div>I have read countless howtos and FAQs and set up the card as best I can, but I can't work out how to associate any new channels with the card. Ultimately I will probably use something like the 'dusky control' to change channels on the external receiver, but for now I'd be happy to be able to change channels manually and just be able to watch/record the input in Myth. <br>
<br></div><div>The card is identified as [V4L:/dev/video1] , Analogue V4L Capture Card, with the default input set to 'Composite1'. I use 'Radio Times XML' as my [only] video source and have my current DVB-S channels from the Nova card correctly linked to these schedules, and for now I also have the HVR-1300 linked to this ('Input Connections : [V4L:/dev/video1] (Composite) -> RadioTimes XML') but I cannot figure out how to add some new channels in the channel editor such that when I select them Myth knows that a particular chanel is to be found on the external Composite input and not on the DVB-S2 card. I have left the 'External channel change command' box blank, though ultimately I will have an entry in here to change channel on the external sat box; I also have no clue what to enter into the 'Preset tuner to channel' or 'Starting channel' boxes. I have also tried scanning for channels in the 'Connect source to input' screen, but I get a whole list of unidentified channels which when I try to select one from the front end, the screen goes blank (black) for a while and then the error message "Irrecoverable recorder error" and the backend log shows:</div>
<div><br><div> 2010-09-19 17:25:39.403 TVRec(5): HW Tuner: 5->5<br> 2010-09-19 17:25:39.601 DVBChan(5:/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0) Error: SetChannelByString(9999): Failed to initialize multiplex options<br> 2010-09-19 17:25:39.609 TVRec(5) Error: Failed to set channel to 9999. Reverting to kState_None<br>
<br>This tells me that Myth is trying to tune to this channel (which I have set up using 'Create new channel' as Channel 9999) on Tuner 5 (/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 - my internal DVB-S2 card) and not on the HVR-1300's composite input. In mythweb my DVB-S2 input appears as Encoder 5 and the second input as Encoder 11 ((as a complete aside, these numbers seem to increment every time I remove and re-add a card - is there any way to reset them to (say) 1 and 2?))</div>
<div><br>So: How do I tell Myth that certain channels (which I will probably want to set up manually rather than scanning for) are on the external composite input to the HVR-1300, and that to tune this specific channel I will need to use a comand or script run outside of Myth to send a command to the external receiver to tune to (say) Animal Planet on channel '525', whereas other channels are already set up and working on the internal DVB-S2 card?<br>
<br></div><div>I can see where I define the command to run to change the channel; I just can't see where to associate certain channels with certain input cards.</div><div><br>Sorry if this turns out to be a 'dumb' question, but I've been battling with this for the whole weekend :-s<br>
<br></div><div>George<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>