[mythtv-users] Issue with a scanning for moved Portland channel

John Sturgeon john.sturgeon at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 17:27:43 UTC 2009


Yep, I upped them to 5 seconds, for both MythTV scan as well as dvb- 
utils 'scan'

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John Sturgeon <><
john.sturgeon at gmail.com

On Sep 20, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> On 09/20/2009 04:17 PM, John Sturgeon wrote:
>> A few months ago, one of our local stations (Portland, OR FOX  
>> affiliate KPTV) changed frequencies, and due to laziness, and lack  
>> of interesting shows during the summer, I never updated the channel  
>> table in MythTV.
>>
>> Well, now that fall is upon us, I'd like to start recording on that  
>> channel, so I went to my backend setup, and rescanned, but for some  
>> reason, the new channel is not being detected on the scan.  It  
>> signal locks, but returns back with Timeout Scanning : no tables.   
>> (as opposed to no signal).
>>
>> I've tried using dvb-utils 'scan' and I can successfully scan all  
>> channels, but when it hits channel 12, it pauses and finally  
>> returns "WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000" then moves on to the  
>> other channels.
>>
>> Anybody have any tips/ideas as to how to diagnose this problem?
>
> Did you up the timeouts?  (Go to max to see if that helps, then--if  
> so--adjust down as desired.)
>
> Mike
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