[mythtv-users] Installing my pchdtv-5500 working..2nd

[Andrew Burgess]

>>>scan and output a channels.conf file

>I yum installed dvb-apps but i'm not sure of the tzap szap, etc process...
>can you give me a hand with the syntax?

This is what I just did to find the comcast digital channels
in Santa Cruz CA:

#!/bin/sh
# scan for channels using dvb-apps
for f in /usr/share/dvb-apps/atsc/*; do 
  echo; echo $f; echo
  scandvb $f | tee ~/scandvb/$(basename $f).out; 
done

Adjust the path for where your rpm put the files.

This resulted in:

-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel    0 Aug 21 11:07 us-ATSC-center-frequencies-8VSB.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel    0 Aug 21 11:12 us-Cable-EIA-542-HRC-center-frequencies-QAM256.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel 1.9k Aug 21 11:29 us-Cable-EIA-542-IRC-center_frequencies-QAM256.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel    0 Aug 21 11:29 us-Cable-HRC-center-frequencies-QAM256.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel 1.9k Aug 21 11:47 us-Cable-IRC-center-frequencies-QAM256.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel 2.1k Aug 21 12:00 us-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM256.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel    0 Aug 21 12:00 us-CA-SF-Bay-Area.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel    0 Aug 21 12:01 us-ID-Boise.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel    0 Aug 21 12:02 us-MA-Boston.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel    0 Aug 21 12:02 us-MI-Lansing.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel    0 Aug 21 12:03 us-NTSC-center-frequencies-8VSB.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel 1.2k Aug 21 12:11 us-NY-TWC-NYC.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 aab devel    0 Aug 21 12:11 us-PA-Philadelphia.out

Since I'm not near NYC I concated all the other files:

cat us-Cable* | sort | uniq > us.out

Then I ran mythtv-setup and scanned using us.out as my channels files

Then I watched them and figured out which channel it was
and copied the various fields (callsign, channel, etc) from 
the channels from DataDirect.

HTH