[mythtv-users] DataDirect data incomplete?

[Robert Tsai]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 11:39:32PM -0800, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> Robert Tsai <mythtv at tsaiberspace.net> says:
> > I seem to have lost all my xmltvid values in the "channel"
> > table. Are they important? I seem to have my listings back, so
> > things seem OK, but I know they I used to have xmltvid values
> > (possibly downloaded from DataDirect?

Hmm.

So I seem to have lost my listings again. I think the xmltvids *are*
important (mine have been blank).

> * Scan for channels in mythtv-setup.
> * Use mythtv-setup's channel editor to fix the callsigns. (This is
>   important as one wants to make sure that identical channels on
>   different video sources share the same callsigns. See
>   <URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/216512#216512>
>   for details.) This means renaming callsigns like "KTVU-HD" to
>   "KTVUDT," since the latter is what labs.zap2it.com uses.

If what you say is true, then my blank listings might be because my
callsigns are set to "KTVU" (rather than the zap2it callsign
"KTVUDT"). As far as I have been able to tell in the past, the
callsign only matters for getting channel logos. Auto-logo-fetching
doesn't work if the callsigns are as zap2it identifies them (the
iconmap.xml file uses the 4-letter callsigns).

Being too lazy to read the source code, I didn't investigate too
deeply. I just manually inserted the xmltvid values from an old
backup, and things are back to normal again.

--Rob