[starslayer74]

I will find the time eventually. My wife also wants this feature  

+1 It would be nice to enable two PVR's together but this feature keeps me from doing it.  Also I wonder I wonder why backend numbering is not the standard setting with the more complicated Kodi based channel management being Advanced.

Martin 

It makes sense to not be a standard feature, because channel # duplication/collision would/could happen. But maybe if there was logic behind it, like give channel # priority to your first PVR (since you can choose their priority anyway)  and make the other channels "xxx.1, xxx.2" like broadcast TV is doing OR just append the channels at the end after the first priority PVR runs out of channel #'s. 

I have heard the argument that channel numbers don't matter but I specifically added a flirc and a remote with number buttons to my system, just for the experience of being able to type my channel that I want to watch (like I did on the old cable box days) - plus, like mentioned above, it makes it more "wife friendly" or family friendly for those of us with families who aren't necessarily as invested with our hobby as we are