[mythtv-users] How to scan Freesat channels

Jelte Veldstra jelte.veldstra at gmail.com
Wed Apr 7 10:03:19 UTC 2010


On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Steve Curtis <scurtis at fixation.net> wrote:

> Hiya,
>
> I have a DVB-S card in my mythtv setup alongside some DVB-T cards.  I've
> noticed that when trying to scan a specific transport on a Freesat dish, say
> the BBC HD Transport, myth-setup seems to carry on and scan the whole
> satellite.  I'm sure it didn't used to be this way, and seems to be
> something that's changed in 0.22-fixes at some point?  Given the huge number
> of channels on Freesat I didn't want to look at the hundreds of channels it
> would find and limit scans to a few transports and just delete a few of the
> extra channels it would find alongside the one I actually wanted.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behaviour - or am I doing something wrong?
>
> Cheers,
> Steve.
>
>
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What worked for me was doing a scan from the commandline and then trim the
output to contain only the channels I wanted to add. That file can then be
used from mythtv-setup rather than using the built in scanner.

Regards,


Jelte
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