Multiple Tuner - Remapping not working

[jturner421]

I just recently setup SageTV. I currently have a PVR-250 and an HD-Homerun using OTA for HDTV. I have firewire working but I can not configure the source properly. Here is the setup:

1) PVR-250 set to area code one - Madison Digital Cable
2) Firewire set to area code two - Eau Claire Digital Cable

Both are Charter. I've successfully remapped channel 5 to 782 to capture ABC on HD through firewire. This shows up in my guide data properly. Here is where my confusion lies. I'm able to get USA, SCI-FI and several others over firewire. Madison has USA as channel 34, Eau Claire has it at channel 40. How do I properly remap the Eau Claire channel so Sage can address both boxes for conflicts, etc..

Thanks.

--Joel

[Narflex]

You might have it setup right and not realize it. If a channel is on 2 separate numbers (i.e. USA is on 34 and 40) then it'll only show up in the EPG once. But the scheduling system knows you've got both and their appropriate associations; so if one of your tuners is busy it can use the other one to record it on the proper channel.

[jturner421]

Thank you for your reply. This brings me back to my original question although in more detail. If I bring up the guide and choose USA, it will default to the DCT-2000 feeding the PVR-250. I would like it to default to the DCT-6000 through Firewire. Similarly, Cinemax is on channel 550 for SD and 776 for HD on Charter. By some coincidence, my Cinemax HD is not 5c encrypted and I can stream through Firewire. Again I have the same issue. Changing the channel to 776 will change the channel on the DCT-2000 even if I disable the channel for it in setup. Is it a simple matter of changing tuner priorities in the sage.priorities file?

Thanks.

--Joel

[rtengvad]

Yes, you can specify the priority of the tuners in sage.properties. Find the encoder_merit=0 setting and set it to a higher number the higher the priority.

rtengvad

[jturner421]

I had done that the other day to make sure that the PVR-250 was the last tuner to be used for anything but had not gone back to check to see if it worked. Tried it last night and it did!