[mythtv-users] Adding a channel that is not show in Zap2It
listings
Alan Snyder
ax763 at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 3 17:15:53 EST 2004
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> I have posted this question once before and didn't get a
> response, so I am trying again and hopefully it is more
> understandable this time.
>
> I do not have cable or sattelite, so I only receive local
> broadcasts. Here in Eugene, Oregon, we receive MTV 2 on UHF
> channel 51. Zap2It does not list this channel in the local
> broadcast listings for Eugene. I have contacted them about
> this several times and they have not yet added it. I have
> sucessfully added UHF 51 as a channel in MythTV, so I can
> tune to MTV 2, but I cannot get the program listings loaded
> for this channel.
>
> MTV 2 is listed in the Comcast Digital cable listings as
> cable channel 135. I want to know if I can force the program
> data for cable channel 135 to be assigned to, and shown as
> the program data for, UHF channel 51. If so, how do I do it?
>
Just a wild guess - You might be able to edit the frequency
tables in the sources and insert the proper frequency for channel
51 into the slot for channel 135. I don't recall the name
of the source file but you could grep for likely words like HRC,
us-cable, etc.
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