[mythtv-users] DVB EIT Not Updating

John Pullan john.pullan at gmail.com
Wed Jan 18 08:57:37 UTC 2006


On 18/01/06, Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 17/01/06, Robin Elvin <rob at fearsedge.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 01:51, Nick wrote:
> > >
> > > For this precise reason I use a program called tv_grab_dvb to get the
> > > DVB EPG data when the card is not being used in MythTV. DVB radio
> > > channels are not supported well in 0.18.1 so I use tv_grab_dvb to get
> > > the listings for them so I can at least schedule DVB radio in TS
> > > format.
> > >
> > > Nick
> >
> > OK, I've had look for tv_grab_dvb and I sort of have it working. I can't
> seem
> > to find any guides so I'm guessing most of what I should be doing. I
> should
> > mention that I'm doing this so I can finally record DVB radio.
> >
> > I made a fresh DVB scan and got an up to date channels.conf which I put
> in the
> > same directory as tv_grab_dvb. Then I ran it and I got some XML. I then
> ran
> > it again and pumped this into mythfilldatabase.
> > Looking at the output it seems I got data for the radio channels but
> what
> > happens to them? My initial mythsetup scan only added the FTA TV
> channels so
> > I don't see any radio in the EPG. Do I need to do this scan again with a
> > different setting?
>
> You need to manually add the radio channels to the channel table - if
> you compare an existing TV channel in the table to its entry in
> channels.conf, it's fairly obvious to determine how the radio channels
> should look. In terms of the DVB card - the settings required are in
> the list archives as I'm away from my box at the moment.
>
> I think radio channel scanning/support is being mooted for a future
> release - in the meantime it's just nice to be able to schedule radio
> recordings.


I'll just point out that svn does have a patch in trac. I believe it'll be
integrated just after 0.19 is let out.

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/926

Regards

--
John
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