[dothedog]

I am having an odd issue. I am running myth v0.27.3-150-g082d5c on ubuntu 14.04. XBMC 13.1 Git:f2acae7.
1 tuner is a motorola stb controlled via firewire, and 2 tuners on an hd homerun. All have worked flawlessly for months now.
I just set up the pvr.mythtv add-on, and it mostly works. The only problem I am having is that it only "sees" 193 channels. even though there are hundreds available on myth. also, it doesn't seem to see the hd homerun tuners either. Is there a setting or something to allow is to pick up more channels/tuners?

DoTheDog

Hi, i think you have duplicated channels between different sources. The addon aggregates myth channels by callsign to make the set of unique channels. Then channel is identified by its callsign and associated to the first myth channel (ChanID) with same callsign. So only one sourceID will provide a channel even if other source provide channel with same callsign.

I am not a specialist of myth setup. But it could be complex to configure system with different type of capture cards which provide same channels. Maybe you are in this situation and you have many channels duplicated (callsign) and addon shows you only one.
Time passed and i think the aggregation is not perfect because 2 channels with the same callsign but provided by two different sources (captureCard / videoSource) are merged to one. In fact only channels assigned with same source should be merged.
Using rule above, i think you will have more channels available.
Soon i will review the aggregate method and let you know.

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Also, it could be the reason why addon does not use your hd homerun tuner: All channels (callsign) are provided by your first source (motorola card / dedicated video source maybe sourceID 1).

So, i added a new commit to update the channel merge. Now addon merge channels from the same source only. The addon create a group of channel for each source. Then changing channel group (in channel screen) allows you to view other channels. Now you can open show for duplicated channels in other source.

Also you have to know adding a new timer for a duplicated channel accross source will create a rule with specified channel, but your myth backend will not record necessarily this channel id: It will choose one among all channels with same callsign/number.

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@janbar. Wow, thanks for the quick response! Question, so how do I test the new commit? will it update automatically or should I grab it from somewhere?

I think you are correct. I was used to seeing 3 tuners on the HD homerun and one from the Motorola STB, After careful review I think your analysis is correct, so I am looking forward to testing your new commit.

DoTheDog