[mythtv-users] channel numbering is messed up: BBC ONE was 1, is now 4173

[UB40D]

Thanks! It's recording now or I'd do it straight away.

Once I do it, am I guessing correctly that previously scheduled
recordings will become invalid, or will they auto-correct back from
(say) 4173 to 1?

On 4/25/11, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25 April 2011 18:27, UB40D <ub40dd at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I am running mythbuntu 10.10 with a DVB-T-only Hauppauge dual tuner.
>>
>> Recently, possibly following a rescan/retune after digital switchover,
>> the mapping between the channels and their numbers has been messed up.
>> For example: BBC ONE used to be 1, but now it's both 1 and 4173, and
>> actually the "1" instance doesn't work.
>>
>> More specifically:
>>
>>  Frontend / Manage recordings / Schedule recordings / Search lists /
>> Channels
>>
>> gives me a listing that starts with an ok-looking
>>
>> 1 BBC ONE
>> 2 BBC TWO
>> 3 ITV1
>> [...etc, but continues with...]
>> 4173 BBC ONE
>> 4287 BBC TWO
>> 4288 BBC THREE
>> [...]
>>
>> The more serious problem is that selecting "1 BBC ONE" gives me "No
>> listings found for this program"! I do however get the expected
>> listings if I scroll all the way down to "4173 BBC ONE" and select
>> that.
>>
>> How can I fix things so that I get rid of the duplicates and put back
>> the channels where they belong? A new full rescan has not solved it.
>
> Delete and recreate the video source, and _then_ do a full scan. This
> will restore the Freeview channel numbering and your EIT listings.
> Your current video source contains a mixture of working/non-working
> channels from multiple scans, which as you have seen is a broken
> configuration.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
>
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