[mythtv-users] I have written a DVB-T (freeview) auto channel setup script..

[Mike Ryan]

Hi

Even if it doesn't get accepted, any chance you could post it as I'm in the
middle of adding all mine again?

Incidentally, does it tie up the channels with the xmltv id's for use with
tv_grab_dvb? ie, does BBC1 = 4164.dvb.guide , etc

Cheers

Mike

Quoting George Styles <george at ripnet.co.uk>:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry for xpost if its not approriate.
>
> Following the recent re-shuffle of PIDs in the UK on Freeview, I got fed up
> manually setting up channels.
>
> I have written a PHP script which uses dvbscan (part of the LinuxTV tools) to
> dump out the channel list, and populate the channel tables in MythTV.
>
> It populates channel, dvb_channel, and dvb_pids automatically.
>
> At the moment, you have to change one line to indicate the starting frequency
> for your local transmitter. LinuxTV is supplied with a list of transmitters
> and their frequencies.
>
> It uses the ServiceID as the chanID in mythtv (as I believe these stay
> constant)
>
> It also 'fixes up' the radio channels by assigning a dummy video PID from the
> same MUX, so they work in MythTV.
>
> It outputs a SQL script, which you can pipe to mysql to do the setup.
>
> Can I contribute this to mythtv? i also wanted to contribute my auto-archive
> script (which only works for DVB recordings) as well. Is is possible to have
> partial CVS access for my tools? If not, I will throw together a web page
> with them on.
>
> g
>