[mythtv-users] TV channels not being found...

Bernard Mentink ebike at paradise.net.nz
Wed Feb 18 23:11:52 EST 2004


Hi All,

I have MythTV all but working completly ... i.e all the pluggins work, the 
only thing
remaining is LiveTV.

The issue is this:

When I go to change channel, the backend spits out lots of messages saying 
it cannot find
entries for channel 1..90 (i.e lots of lines of individual channels it 
cannot find ) in my channel setup.(..this is when I change channels on the 
remote of keyboard )

Ok, I only receive 5 channels here, XMLTV downloaded TV1,TV2,Tv3,TV4 and 
Prime for the free-to-air channels in New Zealand. It uses tv_grab_nz for 
the grabbing. Now here is the rub.

I do a mythfilldatabase after the tv_grab_nz stage  and go into the 
"channel setup" menu in setup.
All the XMLTV ID's are there but no relating channel numbers. Is this 
normal?

Anyhow, I find out (from xawtv) what channels relate to which ID and enter 
them in ... is
that what I am meant to do? Seems strange, as Freevo works all this out 
for you automagically.

Also on the second page of the "channel setup" is a Frequency ID field, 
what is this?
Am I mean't to put each channels frequency in there .... seems unnecessary.

This whole channel thing is very confusing, as there is no documentation 
on how to set
this up correctly .... almost as though it's all meant to "just work"
(xawtv has a file that relates channel name to channel no to frequency, 
what does that in MythTv?)

I would really like to be able to use LiveTV ... at the moment I can only 
watch the default
channel (11 which is TV4... I think).

I'm not sure if the issue is with tv_grab_nz or mythfilldatabase or MythTV.

Anyone shed some light. Sorry I can't give a printout of the error, as my 
network card is down
right now.

Many Thanks,
Bernard mentink




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