2018-01-20, 08:33 PM
johnsta Wrote:For example, it says, "Click on the QAM/ATSC/DVB-T/DVB-C Silicondust
HDHomeRun Tuner xxxxxxxx-0 entry appropriate for your signal source
and then click Device Setup. Do not use the HDHR entry."
Unfortunately, none of that matched the NPVR screen, so I used the
"HDHR entry" anyway, and that ended up working. I had to screw around
with both of them for a couple of hours, but it finally worked.
FYI (or for others finding this in the future): If you're using a Cable Card, then you select the HDHR devices. If you were using OTA broadcast in the US, you would use the ATSC devices. If you were using Digital Cable (QAM), then you would use the QAM devices.
johnsta Wrote:After that, the main problem is that all the recurring programs are
set up for the Ceton card, and they're wrong for the HD box, since
they used different tuners and sometimes different channel names.
I ended up writing a script that would generate and execute the
correct sql to make the changes automatically. So for example the
command "fixchannel WCVB5 WCVB" would find all recurring programs
using the old channel name (WCVB5) and change them to point to the new
channel name (WCVB). This worked pretty well, though it still took a
number of hours to get it right. I don't know if there's a way to do
it automatically within the UI, but this worked out ok. The only
other way of doing it, as far as I know, would be to manually cancel
all the old recurring shows and manually reschedule the same shows
again using the new channels. Since I have dozens of recurring shows
scheduled, this would have been extremely tedious, time-consuming and
error-prone. Anyway, all's well that ends well.
The supported way to accomplish this would be to use the NextPVR Settings to Merge the old Ceton channel with the corresponding new HDHR channel. Then all of the recurring recordings would "just work."