[mythtv] Why MythTV didn't handle the UK Freeview lineup change

Stuart Auchterlonie stuarta at squashedfrog.net
Tue Sep 15 14:16:13 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:53:50AM +0100, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>
> I finally got around to rescanning so as Myth would fetch programs for
> Virgin1 correctly. I hadn't up to now because I so rarely see anything
> there I want to record. The procedure didn't entirely work, so I thought
> it might be worth reporting here.
>
> My starting point was with none of the +1 channels set up correctly.
> I have them present with their names and icons, but with no programs
> listed (I just tend not to need the +1 channels).
>
> My procedure was:
>
>   Shutdown mythbackend
>
>   Run mythsetup
>
>   Scan
>
>   Exit mythsetup
>
>   Startup mythbackend
>
>   Run mythfilldatabase.
>
>
> At the end of that procedure, Virgin1 was set up correctly with
> all the programs listed at the correct time, other than one thing.
> It was named Virgin1+1. I changed the name manually in the database
> and all has been well since.
>
> Could the problem be that channels that already have names do
> not have their names updated during the scan?
>

Quite possibly. They did just rename virgin1 -> virgin1+1 and
bring up virgin1 in another 24hr slot.

Stuart



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