HDHomerun network tuner configuration
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2023 4:23 pm
Hi all,
I finally have my HDHomerun network tuner working, the configuration in MythTV 32 is now different than is used to be. I wanted to update https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Silicondust ... etup/DVB-C but I cannot create an acoount to update this page. Can someone pleae update the page with the information below (or give me access)?
In the past a number of of captrure cards needed to be configured (matching the number of tuners). And for each capture card a specific tuner needed to be specified in the form <device id>-<tuner sequence number>. This is described on the mentioned wiki page. Nowadays, this has changed. The implementation of the module in MythTV for the HDHomerun negotiates with the HDHomerun device for a free tuner. This means that the configuration is simpler in a way, but also a bit unexpected. Since there is negotiation for an available tuner on the fly, I do not specify the specific tuner, but I do have to add four of the same capture card definitions (my HDHomerun has four tuners). Note, the HDHomerun can only extract one program stream from a transport stream, so per capture card the maximum numer of programs per card is 1.
It took me quite some time to figure this out, Once I noticed this negotiation of available tuners in the logfile I started to understand the current design. I think this information is helfull for others using the MythTv - HD Homerun setup.
Regards, Rene
I finally have my HDHomerun network tuner working, the configuration in MythTV 32 is now different than is used to be. I wanted to update https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Silicondust ... etup/DVB-C but I cannot create an acoount to update this page. Can someone pleae update the page with the information below (or give me access)?
In the past a number of of captrure cards needed to be configured (matching the number of tuners). And for each capture card a specific tuner needed to be specified in the form <device id>-<tuner sequence number>. This is described on the mentioned wiki page. Nowadays, this has changed. The implementation of the module in MythTV for the HDHomerun negotiates with the HDHomerun device for a free tuner. This means that the configuration is simpler in a way, but also a bit unexpected. Since there is negotiation for an available tuner on the fly, I do not specify the specific tuner, but I do have to add four of the same capture card definitions (my HDHomerun has four tuners). Note, the HDHomerun can only extract one program stream from a transport stream, so per capture card the maximum numer of programs per card is 1.
It took me quite some time to figure this out, Once I noticed this negotiation of available tuners in the logfile I started to understand the current design. I think this information is helfull for others using the MythTv - HD Homerun setup.
Regards, Rene