Volfan6415 17 Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 (edited) So i have an HD Homerun Prime and HD Home run Dual, using the built in Live TV support. Is there a way to merge channels between the two tuners? For example channel 6.1 on the Dual is the same as channel 1007 on the HD Homerun Prime. In WMC these channels show up as the same (1007) with 5 different sources. Edited September 9, 2016 by Volfan6415 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37132 Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Hi, are the channel names exactly the same? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volfan6415 17 Posted September 10, 2016 Author Share Posted September 10, 2016 They are slightly different WDSU DT (connect) vs WDSUHD (prime). Can you change channel names to make them the same? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volfan6415 17 Posted September 13, 2016 Author Share Posted September 13, 2016 Bumping to see if there is a way to merge these channels. I have also noticed that if I map both channels to the same guide information only one of the channels actually show the info in the guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37132 Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 How does WMC handle merging them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volfan6415 17 Posted September 13, 2016 Author Share Posted September 13, 2016 Well it detected most of mine automatically, although admittedly i am not sure how it did that. But i am guessing that has more to do with the guide data for each channel. However, there is a way to manually merge channel together by simply pointing two seperate channels to the same guide source. Then WMC will offer to "merge the channels" for you. Then the guide listing for the two seprate is replaced and the sources for the combined channel show as options under the new combined channel. Below is a screenshot for my channel 1007 WDSU with both tuner options listed: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volfan6415 17 Posted September 14, 2016 Author Share Posted September 14, 2016 (edited) Luke i think the problem they were talking about any ultimately fixed in this thread: http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/28338-multiple-tuner-devices-but-only-get-guide-data-for-one-at-a-time/page-2 Is the same one that I am having. Although they were looking at a broader issues of using multiple guide sources the issue of multiple tuners from different sources utilizing the same channel was addressed and a channel mapping solution per tuner was added. Edited September 14, 2016 by Volfan6415 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volfan6415 17 Posted September 19, 2016 Author Share Posted September 19, 2016 So any updates to this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37132 Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 It's being considered. Thank you for your patience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volfan6415 17 Posted September 20, 2016 Author Share Posted September 20, 2016 Thanks, i run beta but happy to test any Dev builds that would include a fix for this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marlor 6 Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 Hi, I was searching for this question just now and found this post, so rather than starting a new post… I was testing NextPVR and it merges all the channels with the same name which is very useful when you have multiple tuners (e.g. dual o quad) and by merging you end up with only one channel but with multiple sources. So when you tune in to a channel, it will still recognise you have multiple sources/tuners so you still can watch the same channel at the same time. Is this possible in Emby? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Yes it is for like tuners. I have 3 HDHomeRun Primes each with 3 tuners. In Emby I have one set of channels only but Emby will roll over to the 2nd then 3rd tuner as needed. I also have OTA via Quatro tuner. Even though some of the OTA channels like ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS are present on cable as well these will not get merged as they have different channel numbers. In the future it may be possible to merge these as well so I could use OTA first when possible saving the cable tuners for channels not available via OTA. This type of functionality is in the new version of LiveTV currently in dev and early testing. I'm able to set OTA first, Cable 2nd, and m3u tuners 3rd for priority. Then I can manually "stack" the channels that are the same between the dissimilar tuners. It still automatically stacks/merges tuners that are the same type. Hope that helps, PS don't ask when this will be released. The answer is when it's ready. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marlor 6 Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 @cayars, that is very exciting, thank you for explaining. I also have two quad tuners, one freeview (OTA) and one Freesat and in NextPVR they all get merged regardless of the tuner so the server just picks whatever is available which is an amazing feature. It really exciting to know this will also be a feature of Emby. As giddy as I am, I have noted your release answer and will refrain from asking but I am really hoping soon! I really like Emby and once we have these live TV features, to me it will be complete. Please think of me if it comes to a point you need testers. I will love to take part. Again and as always, thank you for taking time for such a detailed explanation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StLDreiling 16 Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 Thanks @Marlor for the bump this and @cayars for the explanation! Customizing tuner priority and channel stacking will be a huge benefit and I'm really looking forward to seeing it in action. I know the next major release is already bringing huge improvements to live TV (looking forward to hearing my ATSC 3.0 streams lol). Keep up the great work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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