[mythtv-users] How do set channels preferences and link channels with the tv program guide

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/17/06 05:42, Alan Chandler wrote:

>I have finally got my two usb dvb-t cards to deliver reliable video from a 
>common aerial.  So I am now into the phase of trying to make mythtv work in a 
>backend/frontend configuration.  I am in the UK near the Crystal Palace 
>transmitter.
>
>In mythtv-setup I have created two cards, and a single video source which both 
>cards link to (I assume that is correct?)
>  
>
Yes.

>In the video source, dialog, for XMLTV listing grabber I use United Kingdom 
>(alternative) which tells me its using tv_grab-uk_rt to get the listings.  I 
>also have the "Perform EIT Scan" checked.
>
>My first problem, is that selecting this brings me into a terminal window in 
>which I have to say "yes" or "no" to hundreds of channels, whereas my cards 
>only have about 30 odd channels they tune to, and even less that I am 
>particularly interested in.
>
>Is there anyway to simply select a small subset of the potential channels to 
>allow mythtv to see on the tuner, and to limit the tv_grab_uk_rt questions to 
>just those channels.  I really am NOT interested in stuff like "Bid-Up Tv" or 
>even CBBC
>  
>
Just use the default and then edit the config file (maybe something like 
~/.xmltvrc or ~/.xmltv/*) by hand to disable everything and then enable 
just the channels you want?

>Secondly, regardless of the first answer, is there anyway to order channels in 
>the user interface so that the higher priority ones (ie BBC 1, and ITV1 etc) 
>are grouped together and the lower priority ones (such as BBC NEWS 24 or 
>whatever) are out of the way.  This is particularly annoying whilst watching 
>TV, and to select between the two you have to go via a number of pretty 
>irrelevent channels.
>  
>
Change the channel numbers (using the channel editor in mythtv-setup or 
MythWeb).  They can be anything you want (but don't modify freqid--even 
though it may start out equal to channel number).

>Thirdly, there seems to be a mismatch between the channel name as provided by 
>the tuners and that provided by the XMLTV grabber,  for instance, my tuner 
>calls BBC 1 "BBC ONE", where as the grabber calls it "BBC 1".  As a result I 
>have program listing for BBC1, but can't tune to them, AND an entry in the 
>program guide for "BBC ONE" for channels full of "unknown".  The implication 
>of the user interface is that if I go into the channel editor and select the 
>BBC ONE channel, and put "BBC1" into the XMLTV ID field.  But I tried that 
>and it didn't work.
>  
>
You need to put the XMLTV ID into the XMLTV ID field.  BBC1 is either 
the channel name or the callsign provided by your grabber.

Mike