Possible inefficient use of tuners when channel surfing in Kodi

[mrdally204]

I discovered a pretty cool feature I never knew existed when watching the same channel on multiple Kodi clients they took advantage of the same tuner. COOL! So I started playing a little bit and think I found a small inefficiency. I captured the device status when recreating it and will try and explain.

I have 2 clients at the beginning of the capture watching the same channel 27.1. I bring in a 3rd client on 27.1 and bam it joins with the other 2 taking advantage of that one tuner, Tuner A.
I change the channel on the 3rd client to 19.1, it switched tuners as I expected it to, Tuner B.
I switched back to 27.1 on my 3rd client, but I did not join back to the group of 2 this time instead it switched the channel to 27.1 on Tuner B.
At the end of the video I stop playback, start playback again on chan 27.1 and we are once again a group of 3 on Tuner A.

Is this expected behavior or an oversight when changing channels? The tuners used in this video are HDHomerun Extends if that matters.

http://screencast.com/t/K2LDMgg5

[sub]

Yes, that is the intended behaviour.

It's quicker to change channels on the already in use tuner than it is to switch to a different tuner.