[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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