How do channel lineups work?

[Nick Burns]

I'll be installing my 2nd HDHR unit this weekend, giving me a total of 5 ATSC tuners (OTA only). I haven't upgraded to the latest firmware yet, but the current unit gets a better signal on Tuner0 than on Tuner1 or the HVR-1600.

Should I be creating a separate lineup for each of the tuners?
Will this help with the padding issues I've been experiencing?
Am I correct in that the way to set up a new lineup is to completely shut down BTV and run it's setup?
Can each lineup have the same channels?
How do they look in the guide?

Basically I'm asking (as per the title) how do channel lineups work and what are the benefits?


Thanks!

[Fonceur]

You can re-use the same lineup on multiple tuners, no need to create a new one each time. All the various lineups appear has their sum in the guide, in numerical order. There are specific instructions to setup the HDHR's lineups...

[richt]

Yes you can use the same lineup on multiple tuners. In fact that is a preferred method because then BTV can resolve time conflicts by simply shifting the second recording job to a different tuner. This doesn't work if you use different lineups for each tuner.

I have created 2 lineups on Snapstream.net. One is for my Digital cable and the other for QAM. When you get to the PC however, you can create multiple channel lists based on the lineups downloaded from SS.net. For instance I have 2 channel lists created from my digital cable lineup. I created the first channel lineup and hid all the digital channnels. This is strictly for the analog channels that can be tuned directly by my nVidia dual tuner. The second channel Lineup hid all the analog and the digital channels that I don't get. This is used to record through the STB which is hooked up via S-Video input to a PVR-150.
This adds a lot of flexibility as you are limited to the number of lineups you can create on SS.NET.