possible to disable tuner without removing it?

[btrcp2000]

Going to try my colossus again, but want to isolate it without the other tuners using the same channels. Can I somehow disable the other ones without deleting then entirely? Trying to avoid having to set up channels again if I need to switch back from colossus.

[tmiranda]

You can disable all the channels on the tuner. In that case the tuner is still setup in SageTV, it's just setup with no channels enabled.

[btrcp2000]

True, I suppose that's better than nothing. Just a pain to have to go through one by one and re-enable the right ones.

My problem since first installing sage is that when it downloads my Zap2it lineups for a fresh tuner install, they need a lot of attention before being usable, such as renaming and a little bit of remapping the locals so it will only use the HD channels.

[MattHelm]

There is an app that will save your channels. It doesn't play well with ceton tuners, but it's worked with all my others. "Import/export channel" list???

[Ender]

One could always make a copy of the sage tv install folder. Disable the desired tuners, and enable the colossus. When your experiment is over, make a copy of the wiz.bin, delete the sage folder, copy back the old install, and replace the wiz.bin.

A bit complex, yes but effective none the less.

[btrcp2000]

not complex at all, in fact I already have it with the scripts. I'll just make a copy of one of the copies and hide it somewhere else so it doesn't get overwritten. Great suggestion!

[Tiki]

Originally Posted by Ender

One could always make a copy of the sage tv install folder. Disable the desired tuners, and enable the colossus. When your experiment is over, make a copy of the wiz.bin, delete the sage folder, copy back the old install, and replace the wiz.bin.

A bit complex, yes but effective none the less.

Actually, I think you need to backup Sage.properties (that's where the tuner info is stored). Not sure if backing up wiz.bin is necessary for this, but it won't hurt.