[mythtv-users] PVR 250

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 01:09:00 UTC 2006


On 16/01/06, Mike Richardson <doctor at mcc.ac.uk> wrote:
> I have a Hauppauge PVR 250 card which I can tune using ptune.pl (I have
> generated a list of channel numbers/frequencies which correspond to local TV
> channel) but I don't know how to get Mythtv to change channels. Currently
> all I get is static and no channel change when I try. As far as I can tell
> mythtv doesn't know anything about the configuration specifics of the card.
>
> Is there a channel config file or database entry which should be populated?

The 'channel' table in the database - for tuner based channels, there
is a field called 'freqid' which should contain the "channel number"
i.e. between 21-69 in the UK. This is the tuning information that
MythTV uses internally to tune the PVR card to a channel.

Nick


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