[mythtv-users] HDHR 0-byte recordings

[Robert McNamara]

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:17 PM, James Orr <james.orr7 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:02 PM, James Orr <james.orr7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > OK, I did try that prior to scte65scan but I guess I got confused and I
>> > did
>> > see a reference in the wiki to use scte65scan if you're on comcast so I
>> > went
>> > there.
>> > So, here's what I'm doing ...
>> > 1. Remove tuners
>> > 2. Adding both back in.
>> > 3. Going to connections and associating them with my OTA listing on
>> > schedules direct.
>> > 4. Hitting Scan For Channels
>> > 5. Changing Frequency Table to "Cable"
>> > 6. Hit "Next", the scan starts.  A lot of "Timed out, no signal"
>> > messages
>> > and a few "Timed out, x possible channels" messages, usually preceded by
>> > a
>> > few "Program XX encrypted" lines.
>> > 7.  Now I get "Found 49 off air channels" and the options are "Delete
>> > All",
>> > "Set All Invisible" or "Ignore All".  I picked Delete.
>> > 8. "Found 7 old SCTE channels", I chose "Update All"
>> > 9. "Found 9 old MPEG channels", I chose "Update All"
>> > 10. "Found 8 new non-conflicting MPEG channe;s", I chose "Insert All"
>> > 11. "Found 1 new conflicting SCTE channel", I chose "Insert All" and
>> > took
>> > the suggested channel number.
>> > 12. "Found 16 conflicting old SCTE channels, I chose "Update all"
>> > 13. "Found 12 new conflicting MPEG channels", I chose "Insert All" and
>> > took
>> > the suggested channel number.
>> > 14. "Found 3 conflicing old MPEG channels", I chose "Update all"
>> > 15. "Found 136 unused transports", I chose "Delete All"
>> > 16.  And finally click finish.
>> > Did I do that right, and what do I do next?
>>
>> Update to current .23-fixes (revision 26178 or later), redo steps 1-6,
>> you should find that you no longer get conflicting channels.  Then
>> just go through in the channel editor and associate the XMLTVids with
>> your channels as normal, renumber channels as necessary, and... done.
>> Slightly more involved than using SCTE65 scan, but at least you will
>> have found all of your channels.
>>
> Sorry, this may be a dumb question but how do you get the XMLTV ids?

Run the "report" function at schedulesdirect.org on your lineup, or
hover over them in the web channel editor and see the tooltip.

Robert