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I have just got my media center pc today. I have dual tuners, what i would like to do is get foxtel digital working as well as having the free to air channels. I was thinking that i would put the analogue output from the foxtel settop box into the input of one of the tuners, and then put the antenna into the other tuner card. What I can't work out is, how do I get the media center pc to know that the free to air channels are on one tuner and the foxtel channels are on the other tuner.
Also I've used the epgrunner tool to import the fta and foxtel guides, this worked well, however the channel numbering seems to be wrong, is there any config file around that can reslove this issue?
sorry to report that you won't be able to do this. You can only have either Foxtel, or FTA, not both, as MCE can't be told what tuner has what configuration.
So with Foxtel, dual tuners are a waste (as I found out the hard way!!)
For the channel numbering, you can go into Settings-TV-Guide-Edit Channels, and change the numbers to match the Foxtel channels. You cna then also use Add Missing Channels to add in the missing ones.... It has been working well for me, but I must say I am having some trouble at the moment with some channels suddenly disappearing in the guide. Might just be my setup, but will keep fiddling.
There is a hack available which should allow you to have both analogue FTA and Foxtel STB within MCE with 2 analogue tuner cards. Unfortunately you still wont be able to assign a guide to a specific tuner so recording will be hit and miss.
You can also set a prefered tuner which MCE will use first for viewing or recording.
Not ideal but it can be done. You would set your Foxtel channels up to be channels above 100 and FTA to channels below 100. Then, say your FTA tuner was the prefered one, you would have to make it busy (by pressing record) if you wanted to view Foxtel.
The details for this hack were used to enable the recent 2+ tuners hack and if anyone is interested I'll dig up the link.
I've done a bit of research now and it does seem like a common problem.
What I've done is use the RF out from the foxtel set top box, so now I get all the free to air channels and foxtel comes up as one channel. This seems to be ok.
But what I'd also like is to be able to setup additional channels and assign the listing to them,
for example:
Channel 1. Fox Sports 1
Channel 2. Comedy Channel
etc ..
What I would like is for when you select say channel 2 for it to use the same tuner frequency as channel 1. I don't mind spending the time to add all the addional channels, but I can't seem to find a way to get it to goto the foxtel frequency when the channel is selected, it just goes to snow.
I know I still need to change the foxtel channel, but at least this way I can browse all the channels in the epg, and it's handy to just press record and get the entire show in one click.
To get both foxtel and FTA I just use the RF output on the foxtel set top box. So foxtel just shows up as a single channel. What I do then is if I want to record something on foxtel I go to the 'add listing to channel' option and assign the foxtel channel that I wish to record.
It sucks big time, but I haven't been able to find any other work arounds other than registry hacks etc ..
sorry to report that you won't be able to do this. You can only have either Foxtel, or FTA, not both, as MCE can't be told what tuner has what configuration.
So with Foxtel, dual tuners are a waste (as I found out the hard way!!)
Hi TiggerK,
For an extra $24.95/month you can have an extra foxtel decoder, sitting right on top of the other. I believe (so long as you are willing to pay the $24.95/month), you can have two tuner cards with an individual foxtel decorder feeding each tuner.
The mce remote control receiver has 2 senders in the kit, so I also believe you can individually control 2 foxtel decoders via mce.
