[mythtv-users] zap2it and qam

[Joe Votour]

--- Steven Ihde <steve at x2.hamachi.us> wrote:

> On Wednesday 03 May 2006 12:55, Steven Ihde wrote:
> > BTW, I hadn't thought this had anything to do with
> timeouts -- I had
> > thought most major cable providers in the USA
> (Comcast in many markets,
> > anyway) simply strip out or don't transmit the
> PSIP data (not sure if
> > that's the right term) that Myth is looking for
> and there was no hope for
> > us.  Other than a simple PAT/PMT-based scan like
> "atscscan" uses.
> 
> Looks like I was wrong.  Turns out it was just a
> matter of increasing the 
> signal timeout from 500 to 3000ms.  Now it picks up
> all the QAM channels.  It 
> even gets some of them named correctly (but not
> all).
> 
> However, getting the Zap2It to work for the analog
> cable channels now seems 
> significantly harder.  With 0.19, all I had to do
> was "Fetch channels" and it 
> worked beautifully -- all the channel names were
> correct and had guide data, 
> no scan was necessary (for analog, not for QAM).  
> 
> But now "Fetch channels" doesn't do anything without
> a scan first.  And even 
> if I do a scan first, the channels still don't show
> up named correctly, nor 
> with the guide data.  (They all have names like
> "Adding channel 2".)  To get 
> it to work I have to visit each channel individually
> in the UI and "E"dit 
> channel.  Then the channel name, callsign, XMLTV ID,
> etc., show up and when I 
> hit OK, that channel works (correct name and guide
> data) from that point on.  
> It's a very laborious process.
> 
> Is there any way to get the old behavior for analog
> channels?  Am I missing 
> something here or does the old way seem
> significantly easier?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
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Instead of editing each channel name individually,
I've had success with doing "mythfilldatabase
--do-channel-updates --sourceid x" on the analog
source (where x is the source ID number).

-- Joe

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