Issues with multiple OTA Tuners in different markets

[wja731]

I have a bit of a niche situation. I have an OTA tuner in Richmond Virginia and another one at my family's house in Mandeville, Louisiana. Several channels have overlapping channel numbers from different stations for instance channel 8.1 is ABC in RVA but is Fox in NOLA. This causes issues when creating channel collections as it only lets me add channels with the same number from my prioritized tuner to a collection. Also the guide on my clients are messed up displaying intermittent guide data from the same channel number on the same source. For instance on 8.1 ABC I see 8 News at Noon (RVA) on currently then the next hours have guide data from 8.1 Fox in NOLA.

[jaidenc]

You likely can make separate m3u playlists for the tuners and make sure that the channel numbers don't overlap.

For example, my HDHRs don't automatically assign the channel numbers I want, so I made these and imported them as a custom channels playlists.

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-logo="" channel-number="2",WDPN
http://192.168.0.150:5004/auto/v5042
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-logo="" channel-number="3",KYW
http://192.168.0.150:5004/auto/v3.1
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-logo="" channel-number="4",WACP
http://192.168.0.150:5004/auto/v4.1
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-logo="" channel-number="6",WPVI
http://192.168.0.150:5004/auto/v6.1
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-logo="" channel-number="10",WCAU
http://192.168.0.150:5004/auto/v10.1
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-logo="" channel-number="12",WHYY
http://192.168.0.150:5004/auto/v12.1
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-logo="" channel-number="13",WTXF
http://192.168.0.150:5004/auto/v29.1
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-logo="" channel-number="14",WUVP
http://192.168.0.150:5004/auto/v65.1
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-logo="" channel-number="15",WFMZ
http://192.168.0.150:5004/auto/v5001

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-logo="" channel-number="70",ESPN
http://192.168.0.37:5004/auto/v570
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-logo="" channel-number="71",ACC
http://192.168.0.37:5004/auto/v571
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-logo="" channel-number="72",ESPNEWS
http://192.168.0.37:5004/auto/v572
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-logo="" channel-number="73",ESPNU
http://192.168.0.37:5004/auto/v573
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-logo="" channel-number="74",ESPN2
http://192.168.0.37:5004/auto/v574
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-logo="" channel-number="75",SEC
http://192.168.0.37:5004/auto/v575
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-logo="" channel-number="76",NBCSP
http://192.168.0.37:5004/auto/v576
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-logo="" channel-number="80",NBCSPPLUS
http://192.168.0.37:5004/auto/v580

[wja731]

You are awesome! Thank you for the idea. I never even thought of doing that. I will give it a go.

[jator]

Agreed you can map. I have a few localities tied to my local server and remap channels using the above methodology.

An example for me:

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="6004" tvg-id="[STATION CALL SIGN]" tvg-chno="3004" tvg-logo="https://[logoaddress]" tvc-guide-stationid="[stationidfromzap2it]",[Channel Designation]
http://x.x.x.x:8089/devices/ANY/channels/6004/hls/stream.m3u8?bitrate=1500&indexed=true&resolution=576&ssize=1&vcodec=h264