MythTV provides full support for the HDHomeRun hardware.
- 1) Open mythtv-setup.
mythtv-setup
2) Set up the General page to your liking. 3) Choose Capture Cards.
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Card type: HDHomeRun DTV tuner box |
Device ID: <number from back of HDHomeRun> |
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Tuner: 0 |
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Finish: <enter> |
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Shortcut - if there is only one HDHomeRun on the local network you can use the wildcard FFFFFFFF device ID. |
Repeat adding second capture card for tuner 1
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Card type: HDHomeRun DTV tuner box |
Device ID: <number from back of HDHomeRun> |
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Tuner: 1 |
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Finish: <enter> |
OTA (Digital Antenna)
- 4) Choose video sources
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Video source name: Digital Antenna |
Listings grabber: No grabber (will come back and change this later) |
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Channel frequency table: us-bcast |
- 5) Choose input connections
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Video source name: Digital Antenna |
External channel change command: <blank> |
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Preset tuner to channel: <blank> |
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Scan for channels: <enter> |
- 6) Scan for channels page
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Scan type: Full scan |
Frequency table: Broadcast |
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ATSC modulation: Terrestrial (8-VSB) |
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Channel seperator: Period |
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Existing channel treatment: Minimal updates |
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Next: <enter> |
- 7) Return to "Connect source to input page":
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Make sure that starting channel is a valid channel number |
Finish <enter> |
- 8) Repeat steps 3-6 for for HDHomeRun Port 1. 9) Choose the channel editor
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Note list of channels for source "Digital Antenna" |
10) Open up an account with Tribune Media Services Zap2It.
- Create an account here: Create a channel lineup and enable/disable channels based on channels listed in the Channel Editor in mythtv-setup.
Change the configuration for Digital Antenna as follows:
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Listings grabber: North America (DataDirect) (Internal) |
User id: <login name for zap2it> |
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Password: <password for zap2it> |
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Retrieve lineups: <enter> |
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Data direct lineup: <select correct listing> |
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Finish <enter> |
Digital Cable
- 4) Choose video sources
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Video source name: Digital Cable |
Listings grabber: No grabber (will come back and change this later) |
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Channel frequency table: us-cable |
- 5) Choose input connections
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Video source name: Digital Cable |
External channel change command: <blank> |
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Preset tuner to channel: <blank> |
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Scan for channels: <enter> |
- 6) Scan for channels page (QAM-256)
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Scan type: Full scan |
Frequency table: Cable |
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ATSC modulation: QAM-256 |
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Channel seperator: Period |
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Existing channel treatment: Minimal updates |
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Next: <enter> |
- 7) Return to "Connect source to input page". Choose to scan for channels again. 8) Scan for channels page (QAM-64)
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Scan type: Full scan |
Frequency table: Cable |
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ATSC modulation: QAM-64 |
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Channel seperator: Period |
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Existing channel treatment: Minimal updates |
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Next: <enter> |
- 9) Return to "Connect source to input page":
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Make sure that starting channel is a valid channel number |
Finish <enter> |
- 10) Repeat steps 3-6 for for HDHomeRun Port 1. 11) Choose the channel editor
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Note list of channels for source "Digital Cable" |
12) Open up an account with Tribune Media Services Zap2It.
- Create an account here: Create a channel lineup and enable/disable channels based on channels listed in the Channel Editor in mythtv-setup. Note that MythTV uses the ATSC channel numbering as specified in the transport stream, not the remapped cable channel numbering so you will need to select OTA/Antenna as the source in Zap2it.
Change the configuration for Digital Cable as follows:
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Listings grabber: North America (DataDirect) (Internal) |
User id: <login name for zap2it> |
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Password: <password for zap2it> |
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Retrieve lineups: <enter> |
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Data direct lineup: <select correct listing> |
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Finish <enter> |
