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AutoSwitch Tuner when viewing a channel only available on one tuner

Added by Patrick Kühnel about 7 years ago

Hello,

I have a DVB-C and a DVB-S Tuner. On the DVB-C Tuner I have some channels only available on DVB-C and on DVB-S I have channels only available on DVB-S. All Channels available on DVB-S and DVB-C are merged. So my problem: I watch a channel available on both tuners and TVHeadend decides to use DVB-C, then I want to watch a channel only available on DVB-C at the same time and Kodi says, there is no free adapter. Is it possible that tvheadend automatically switches the first stream to DVB-S that I can watch the second channel via DVB-C?


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RE: AutoSwitch Tuner when viewing a channel only available on one tuner - Added by Robert Cameron about 7 years ago

You can give the tuners priority, so it prefers one over the other. But Tvheadend will not switch tuners to allow you to tune.

RE: AutoSwitch Tuner when viewing a channel only available on one tuner - Added by Patrick Kühnel about 7 years ago

Yes but then I have the problem the other way round.
Even if I have two overlapping sheduled recordings: The first starting program uses the tuner with the higher priority and if the other channel is only available on the tuner with higher priority it won't record because the tuner is already in use.

RE: AutoSwitch Tuner when viewing a channel only available on one tuner - Added by Em Smith about 7 years ago

Try Configuration->Stream->Stream Profiles, click htsp and set "Default Priority" (in expert settings) where you have options such as "DVR: Override Important", "DVR: Override Low", depending on what priority recordings you want your tv viewing to be more important than. I would expect it to cancel the recording, start the streaming, then immediately reschedule the recording which will then start on your other tuner, losing a few seconds of the show.

RE: AutoSwitch Tuner when viewing a channel only available on one tuner - Added by Patrick Kühnel about 7 years ago

Ok thanks for your answer. But this doesn't really solve the problem with overlapping recordings. In my opinion this is a bug.

RE: AutoSwitch Tuner when viewing a channel only available on one tuner - Added by Robert Cameron about 7 years ago

Not really an big, but rather an edge case for which here is no good solution. It's one of the sacrifices to allow multiple services to map to a single channel, regardless of network.

RE: AutoSwitch Tuner when viewing a channel only available on one tuner - Added by Patrick Kühnel about 7 years ago

Robert Cameron wrote:

allow multiple services to map to a single channel, regardless of network.

But this is why I switched to tvheadend, one of the features no other software (I have tested) has. If there would be an "autoresolve feature" it would be more than perfect. I don't think this would be to complicated to check for each new sheduled recording if it's in conflict with another sheduled recording and then try to resolve it. A pitty I'm a C# developer.

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