[mythtv] OpenTV logical channel numbers

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 20:46:17 +0100, you wrote:

>Hi Stephen,
>
>Thanks for the stream! I've put it in my open-source stream analyzer
>"DVB Inspector" and I do see at first sight a number of channels and
>about one week of EPG guide data. This means that the EPG is not
>encrypted and that, if it does not work with the current master, it
>should be possible to fix it. There is also an original network ID so
>that can be used to enable the OpenTV channel number detection
>automatically for that network.

Yes, the SkyNZ EPG is not encrypted, even for the encrypted channels.
There is normally a week of EPG available, although recently they have
started to provide 2 weeks ahead on their web site.

>Mark's patch does also the Logical Channel Numbers; I do hope that I
>did not make mistakes in merging. It would be great if you can do a
>scan and see if it works . Output of "-v chanscan" and possibly also
>"--loglevel=debug" would also be very useful.
>Not really for the experts but for everybody who has not done a scan
>in a long time there is now a "Channel Scanning How To" in the Wiki
>that tries to talk the casual user through the scanning process. Note
>that the "Scan OpenTV" option is not described yet....
>
>Groetjes,
>Klaas.

Is there a safe way of running master on the same PC as I am using for
my production v30 system?  My satellite tuners are all on my
production box, except for one old one in my test PC.  But the test PC
does not have an aerial connection to my dish normally.  I can plug it
in via a 10 metre cable across the floor, but that only works if I am
at home to plug it in and at the moment it is summer in New Zealand
and I am at the beach on holiday until the 30th.  So to do any testing
on master, I need to be able to run it in parallel on the production
box (Ubuntu 18.04).  There are spare tuners I can use to do that - I
have 8 DVB-T2 and 8 DVB-S2 tuners and only need 5 of each for the
production system.  But master would need to use a different database
and install location.