ARGUS TV Recorder Console, Cards

About

In the cards screen, you get an overview of the cards installed and present in your machine. Cards that are indicated as not detected, can be deleted.

Settings

Disabling/Enabling cards

The check box to the left of the card name allows you to disable or enable a card. This could be useful if you wanted another program to use a tuner instead.

Card Order

The priority of the cards can be changed by moving them up or down in the list.

The priority of the cards can be important. When starting a recording, ARGUS TV looks from the top of the list down to find a card linked to the chosen channel. When starting a live stream, ARGUS TV looks from the bottom of the list up to find a card linked to the chosen channel.

You can adjust the position of the card in the list by selecting it and clicking the appropriate button on the right hand side.

CAM Limit & MDAPI

Allows you to set the CAM limit for decoding encrypted channels. The limit determines how many programs the card can decrypt at the same time, given the card has a CAM module installed. A setting of "0" means unlimited.

You can also specify whether a card will be using MDAPI (multi dec API: connect your card without CAM/CI interface to an external CAM module through e.g. MDAPI Plus software).

Hybrid

Some cards have a single tuner capable of tuning several signal types, but only one at a time. In this case ARGUS TV needs to know they are the same hybrid card.

You can change the hybrid setting by choosing one or more cards and clicking the appropriate button on the right hand side.

Input

For Atsc cards (only), an InputType can be specified using the dropdown in the list.

Advanced Settings

In the bottom right corner of the screen, use the button “Show settings” to open and change individual card settings.

Although the global Settings will apply for all cards, you can change them for each card individually in this screen.

Paths tab

Here you can define the folder to use for timeshift and recording files. These paths will supersede the paths set in the settings page.

Advanced tab

Most of these settings are timeouts and fairly self explanatory.

Reset when card is idle, this can prevent second tuning failures. See Second tuning fails.

Information: You don’t necessarily need to touch these settings. They are provided for flexability. In most cases they don’t need to be changed.