[mythtv-users] Channel Scanning From Firewire box?

Norm mlists at dressler.ca
Mon May 5 16:12:18 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 12:01 -0400, Josh Juzwik wrote:
> >  I have my channel listings downloaded via scheduledirect.  What I would
> >  like to do at this point though, is remove the channels that do not come
> >  over the firewire.  Some of them are fairly odd - like some locals or
> >  the Weather Network.
> 
> I have/had similar firewire issues.  Basically for channel control, i
> have found it cleanest to:
> 
> 1.  Filter the 'bad' channels from your schedulesdirect account.
> 2.  Delete all the channels from mythtv-setup (channel editor)
> 3.  'Fetch Channels from Listings Source' from 'input connections'
> area of mythtv-setup.
> 
> 
> Also, upgrading to myth(buntu) .21 made my firewire experience a
> thousand times more enjoyable.
> 
> 
I run trunk already so my experiences are with trunk.  The issue is, I
don't know which channels are unavailable and which ones are -- that's
why I need a scanner - to channel by channel and check.  

Norm



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