Got Myth setup and working well; however, I have two pvr250s. Each one is hooked up to a different cable source. If I choose (in the program guide) a channel from the second source, it always forces me to the first source with the same channel. In other words, if I choose FX on channel 29 on source B, it always selects MTV on channel 29.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

thanks!

"Y" to switch cards...

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When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Cool, thanks for the tip. But, what if I'm sitting on my couch with the grey remote? Is there a way to do that from there? Any tips on having it switch automatically for me based on the program I choose?

Map a button for it. It's dead easy to do. Just edit your /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc file and replace the exisiting definition for the "Go" button under MythTV with this (OBTW - Make a back up copy of the file first of course):

The choice of button was arbitrary. All that lircd does is map button events to pseudo key presses. So pick a button that you're not using for prog=mythtv, and set it's config= to Y.

Thanks for the tip.

But I have to ask:

Why doesn't it just change to the channel/tuner I choose in the program guide? If I choose to record the program, it records the program on the proper tuner. Why then, would it not just change the channel AND the tuner when I select a program?

I have often wondered this myself, and I'm sure there is some technical reason for this, but the mythtv mailing list probably the dev list is a much better place to get an answer.

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but if multiple tuners used the same source, the issue goes away, right?

kinda hard to keep up, is the 150/500 ivtv stuff close to production ready? I see mixed success reports (like the wiki doc) and warnings.

Is there any risk that full support is not to far out either way?

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I'm having good luck with the 0.3.x series of ivtv compiled on my R5A12 box using a pvr-500 connected to analog cable (and not using the s-video inputs). For now, I gave up trying to get the driver to also support the pvr-350 at the same time, but will try that again next week. That problem seems more of a manual config issue of telling some modules to ignore one or the other card during initialization/operation.

From what I can gather, I believe the real test for "out of the box" 150/500 compatibility under Knoppmyth will be in a later release that pulls a newer ivtv-0.2.x release that has backported fixes for those two cards. And such a release of ivtv is available, though I'm not familiar with how stable it is.

So...I don't think it'll be too long, but I'm also just a happy user watching progress on all three fronts (knoppmyth, ivtv, mythtv), so take what I'm saying as a guess.

-brendan