[mythtv-users] UK Freesat and Listings EIT

[Mark Parsons]

On 23 Nov 2008, at 19:52, Nick Morrott wrote:

> On 22/11/2008, Paul <thannet at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there anyone on here that uses UK Freesat and EIT data? The  
>> reason I
>> ask is that I seem to be missing listings for quite a few channels
>> including the new FIVE.
>
> I rescanned/imported/fought with mythtv-setup yesterday and now have
> Five added, working, and with a week's EPG listings. This was using an
> old r18863 build of 0.21-fixes - so it should also work with the
> current stable version.
>
> No idea if the DVB-S channel scanner is stable with the current
> 0.21-fixes revision - it certainly wasn't on the version I was using
> last night. I'll get the box updated and retest in the week.
>
> -- 
> Nick Morrott

Hi Nick - I'm sure that I wouldn't be the only one who'd be eternally  
grateful if/when you do re-test this, you could post back with the  
sequence of things to do?

I've just installed Mythbuntu 8.10 from scratch (due to numerous  
problems with the previous 8.04 installation) and the process of  
adding channels and setting up the epg data grab has changed enough to  
have me completely stumped! The new configuration options for  
tv_grab_uk_rt look extremely promising (particularly just being able  
to select Freesat) but I either end up with no usable channels, some  
channels with Radio Times data that are unusable some with EIT data  
that are usable, and some with nothing... and none of the old guides  
help any more!

Fortunately (?) the hight winds have misaligned my dish, so the fact  
that my Mythbox isn't working is not currently causing marital strife.  
Phew :) It's certainly going to be the last time that I try any kind  
of fiddling/upgrade without some kind of test-bed clone partition,  
assuming such a thing is possible.

Cheers,

Mark P.