[ATrpms-users] Mulitrec with HDHomeRun Tuner

[John Welch]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:15 AM, mythtv at blandford.net
<mythtv at blandford.net> wrote:
> John Welch wrote:
>>
>> This may be a better question for the MythTV list, but since I'm using
>> the "unsupported" bijou packages from ATRpms I figured I would start
>> here in hopes that someone else who is using these packages can help.
>>
>> I have an HDHomeRun tuner that I'm using to tune clear QAM channels
>> from Comcast cable.  After installing the bijou packages I deleted the
>> HDHR tuners that I had defined, and re-added making sure that Max
>> Tuners was set to 2 (the default).  I also have a pcHD3000 tuner card,
>> so I have three tuners that can record essentially the same QAM
>> channels.  Since I've installed the bijou packages (almost right after
>> they were made available) I don't think I've seen the multirec
>> capabilities kick in once.  So, I don't know if it doesn't work with
>> my configuration, or I don't understand how it is supposed to work, or
>> if I have something configured incorrectly.
>>
>> I'll give one example of where I thought the multirec capabilities
>> would work.  Criminal Minds had its two-hour season finale on
>> Wednesday night.  The way it showed up in the schedule was as two
>> one-hour shows.  My recording rule for this show is to start the
>> recording a minute early and end a minute late.  The first one hour
>> show was being recorded on the first tuner of my HDHR.  When it came
>> time for the second hour to start recording I figured with multirec it
>> would be able to also record on the first tuner, but it didn't; it
>> recorded on the second tuner of the HDHR.  So, with this example in
>> mind am I not understanding how multirec works?  Will it only kick in
>> if there are no other tuners available?
>
> Hi John,
>
> I too am running the bijou packages from atrpms.
>
> On Tuesday nights, I record three shows back to back on the same channel.
>  Each one is set to record 5 minutes early and 5 minutes late.  They all
> record on the same tuner.  So your expectation of how it should work is
> exactly how it is working for me.
>
> To set up, I simple deleted all of my tuners, and recreated them.  I see you
> only deleted your HDHR tuners.  Somewhere I thought I saw a note that you
> had to delete them all for this to work - but I am not an expert on this
> topic :)
>
> Michael
>
Michael,

Thanks for the response.  At least I know someone has it working the
way I want it to.  I'll play around with deleting and recreating the
tuners again.  I may have already deleted all of them once before, but
it is worth a shot.

John