[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun && Digital Cable Listings

David Frascone dave at frascone.com
Fri Apr 20 02:52:34 UTC 2007


William Munson wrote:
> David Frascone wrote:
>   
>> My digital cable provider has HD locals in their feed -- but they are 
>> *not* on the normal channels.
>>
>> How can I get a listing to work right from zap2it?
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
> Set up a signal source but do not set a grabber. Assign that source to 
> your hdhomerun and then set the quick tune option on and do a qam256 
> scan of your cable channels. This should give you a list of channels 
> that myth thinks it can receive. The ones with callsigns and channels 
> imbedded will show up with that info, the other ones will have a 
> different format depending on what you select for the separator. Now for 
> the fun part. Start by trying to watch each channel and on the ones that 
> actually work write down the info about the channel
>
> There are several howtos out there for setting these things up. 
> Unfortunately the state of mythtv right now means that it's a royal PITA 
> to set up. There is work going on in SVN to make this easier. That said, 
> basically you need to make the channel number and callsign exactly match 
> the info in your zap2it listing. On my cable system the scan reported 
> calligns were in the form of WABC-DT and zap2it was in the form of 
> WABCDT. Once you get all the channels converted then set the grabber for 
> that source to your zap2it lineup and do a mythfilldatabase. That will 
> set the xmlid for each of the channels that match and provide listing info.
>
> The difficult part for me was editing the channels. You are supposed to 
> be able to do that in the channel editor but I did not have any luck 
> that way. What I ended up doing was installing phpmyadmin and using the 
> web interface to edit the channels table manually.
>
>   
Thanks!  I finally did find a e-mail reference to setting it up -- Probe 
rocks!  But -- alas -- my HD does not like to display :(  I think I need 
more memory.

-Dave



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