Change all tuners to same channel on all PC's

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Change all tuners to same channel on all PC's

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Post by RealCodeGuy » Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:06 pm

How hard would it be to offer an option to change all connected tuners and extenders on all PC's to the same channel? I have several TV's in my home bar setup and it would be great to be able to tune all TV's to same channel with one selection from the guide.

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Post by aeblank » Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:45 am

I think you'd have sync issues.

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Post by RealCodeGuy » Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:42 am

Yeah, not all set stay in perfect sync, but that doesn't mean the feature doesn't have merit. I only play the audio from one set and the others are muted and act as eye

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Post by Motz » Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:03 am

It is completely possible to tell them to tune to or playback a recording, I would just have to implement it. Would be cool for sports I think.

it would be possible to do the main PC and then extenders. Multiple PCs would be a bit more tricky to put into the UI.
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Post by RealCodeGuy » Tue Feb 19, 2013 2:50 am

Sports is exactly what I would use it for. I'll add a suggestion to the tracker and if you are able to get to it that would be great.

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Post by RealCodeGuy » Tue Feb 19, 2013 2:59 am

Feature request #559.

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Post by staknhalo » Tue Feb 19, 2013 3:06 am

Motz wrote:Would be cool for sports I think
Ahhh sports support.....why must you eat/sleep/stop working Motz? I wants. :twisted:

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Post by tad » Wed Feb 20, 2013 6:31 pm

IMO, you would be MUCH better off using a HDMI splitter for this.

Monoprice's HDMI pro line is very good. For example, if you have <=4 TVs this one would work: http://www.monoprice.com/products/produ ... 1&format=2

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Post by Crash2009 » Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:33 am

aeblank wrote:I think you'd have sync issues.
It's not that bad actually. My Echo's stay pretty much "in sync" with each other. HTPC is a bit faster, creating an "Echo effect". Would be kinda cool to press 1 button to change the channel on all.

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Post by Motz » Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:58 am

I am thinking maybe on like android I could do a long press and you have "Tune Channel" but you would see "Tune Channel (on all)" maybe?
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Post by staknhalo » Thu Feb 21, 2013 1:58 am

Motz wrote:I am thinking maybe on like android I could do a long press and you have "Tune Channel" but you would see "Tune Channel (on all)" maybe?
Tune channel (long press) and then check boxes next to available devices and then you hit ok?

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Post by Motz » Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:05 am

yeah probably a better way of doing it.
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Post by RealCodeGuy » Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:44 am

staknhalo wrote:
Motz wrote:I am thinking maybe on like android I could do a long press and you have "Tune Channel" but you would see "Tune Channel (on all)" maybe?
Tune channel (long press) and then check boxes next to available devices and then you hit ok?
Most excellent!

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Post by staknhalo » Thu Feb 21, 2013 4:23 pm

RealCodeGuy wrote:Most excellent!
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