The best I can figure tvheadend uses the old udp api for talking to the HDHR tuners. This requires exclusive use of the tuner. In my house I have a number of applications and devices that share the HDHR tuners via the newer HTTP protocol that puts a temporary lock on the tuner and it considers the different tuners within the device as a pool. i.e. the HDHR Quatro has 4 tuners that are a pool of available tuners until they are locked by someone on the network. A request to http://192.168.0.27:5004/auto/v4.1 is assigned an available tuner to stream virtual channel 4.1.
So my question is are plans in place to switch over the this shared protocol?
To get around it I I have disabled all internal HDHR tuners that the internal scan finds and setup Network DVB m3u files with entries like
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-name="PBS" tvg-id="I30645.json.schedulesdirect.org" tvg-logo="https://s3.amazonaws.com/schedulesdirect/assets/stationLogos/s32356_h3_aa.png" group-title="OTA",WUNCDT
http://192.168.0.27:5004/auto/v4.1
Since I have 2 tuner boxes and they don't receive the exact same channels due to the positioning of the 2 antennas tied to each tuner, I had to setup 2 m3u files with the different IP addresses for the tuners.
I would like to be able to avoid the duplications in program guides I see on the frontend and having to pick tuners when browsing port 9981. How can I just choose a program to record and let tvheadend pick with m3u file has the channel available?
Jim A
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