[mythtv-users] Responsiveness of zap2it to lineup discrepancies?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/05/2006 03:30 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
>     Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:05:22 -0400
>     From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
>
>     On 07/04/2006 02:09 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
>     > I've been reporting the same lineup discrepancy to DataDirect
>     ...
>     > (Failing that, is there some way I can convince my Myth that the
>     > listings for one lineup on channels 84 and 85 should -actually- be
>     > taken to be for channels 71 and 72 instead?  [E.g., "even though
>     > zap2it claims these are channels 84 and 85, they're actually 71 and
>     > 72".]  I'm still using 0.18.1 for the moment.)
>
>     Using mythtv-setup's channel editor, change the freqid for channels 84 
>
> I don't see a field there called freqid.  I ran mythtv-setup on the
> backend (with the backend still running---I'm -assuming- that I should
> actually do this work with the backend shut down,

Yes

> I'm now staring at a screen with "Channel Options - Common" at its
> title.  I see "Channel Number: 84" and "XMLTV ID: 10161" and some
> other random non-numeric fields.
>   

Use "Next" to go to the next page, "Channel Options - Video 4 Linux", 
and change the "Frequency or Channel" setting (which corresponds to the 
DB's freqid field).  (The field may exist in a very different location 
in non-SVN and, especially, in 0.18.x, but that's the best I can give 
you for help.)

> Would it suffice to change the "Channel Number" field from 84 to 71,
>   

No.  The channel number is used for the user's benefit (i.e. in changing 
channels--you can give it any value you like).  You can change it, too, 
but you /have/ to change the "Frequency or Channel" setting.

> or should I be looking in a different page entirely for something
> that looks like an actual frequency?
>
> [Also, while there are a pair of buttons labelled "Scan for
> channel(s)" and "Advanced" at the bottom of this screen, I
> cannot select them by tabbing around, so I can't experiment
> with them.]
>
>     and 85 to 71 and 72 and delete channels 71 and 72 from the lineup,
>
> Delete them from the lineup where in the UI?

http://labs.zap2it.com/

>   Using MythWeb to make
> them invisible?  I don't see a "delete" button in the channel editor.
> I could delete 71 and 72 at the zap2it site; is this what you meant?
>   

Yep.

> 								       if 
>     they exist, or at least change their freqid's to the appropriate channel 
>     numbers.
>
> Unsure what you mean here.  71 and 72 are the "correct" channels, even
> though zap2it doesn't know that.  (And 84 and 85 are static.)
>   

I'm assuming if you tell it to change to channel 71, it changes to 
channel 71, which is in your program listings as 84, so you need to tell 
it which broadcast channel corresponds to the one in your listings 
currently labeled 71.  Either that, or your listings don't have anything 
for 71...

Mike