Will poss listen to your advice and go with mp1 just hope the upgrade route to mo2 is simple
There will not be an "upgrade" route, consider it as a completely different piece of software (it's architecure is completely different). MP2 Alpha currently still uses the MP1.2.2 Server-Side system in anycase (and probably will do for more than a year - and even when the Server-Side MP2 is released it will be an alpha release and very buggy). It is also likely that sucessive versions of MP2 will require the user to uninstall and re-install rather than "upgrade", so using MP2 does not help you from that side of thinga ar the moment. MP2 is currently released to the community for testing and development, not for use on "production systems".
Still a little confused on tv cards despite reading everything
I hear mp can record multiple channels at once from a single tuner, I thought that would mean I can watch channels independently on clients but it doesn't appear so
My question is then if I get a dual tuner s2 (recommendations?) then will it only allow me to have two independent clients, any other client would have to watch same as one of the two clients basically same as my sky multiroom and an additional room using magic eye
You can watch/record more than one channel using a single tuner, but the channels being used simultaneously must all be on the same "Mux" (frequency). You need to look at Kingofsat (DVB-S/S2) or UKFree.tv (DVB-T/T2) to work out what channels cohabit the same muxes and try again.
Assuming you currently only have one tuner installed, then one easy way to tell, is to start watching TV with client 1 and then try to watch the same channel on client 2 (which should work). Now, using client 2, bring up the mini-guide OSD (press "enter" on the keyboard or "OK" on your remote). On the right hand side of the mini-guide will be red and green icons corresponding to each channel. The red icons means that there are no free cards to watch this channel, and the green will mean that there is an available card to watch that channel. Basically, the available channels will only be the channels that are on the same mux as the channel that is being watched on client 1.
However, if you want two clients to have completely un-hampered use of any channel at the same time, you have to have two tuners (or three tuners if you also want to be able to record from any channel at the same time as too).
Please let me know where I need to tweak my guide to make it clearer for people.
Thanks
Robbo100