[mythtv-users] unable to add new channels from Schedules Direct lineup

[Ronald Frazier]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Don Lewis <dl-mythtv at catspoiler.org> wrote:
> No such luck with sourceid 4, though.  For some reason it just doesn't
> want to create any new channels.  If I manually create a missing channel
> in the channel editor and just fill in the channel number, the grabber
> will fill in the rest of the information, but it doesn't seem to want to
> create any new channels from scratch.  This is pretty painful because
> there are now something like eighty missing channels ...

I believe that how mythfilldatabase updates the channels depends on
what sort of card it's assigned to. With an HDHomerun, you can't just
grab the channels from schedules direct. You generally need to do a
channel scan to get the proper info filled in. Now, I'm not sure how
the Prime is setup in myth, but I was thinking it just used the same
recorder class as a regular HDHomerun. If that's the case, then
mythfilldatabase probably doesn't know how to distinguish a regular
HDHR from a Prime, and thus it figures it better not add the channels
because it won't have all the necessary info.

I'm not sure what method you'd thus have to use. You could try
assigning the source to another type of recorder, updating the
channels, and then assigning it back to the Prime recorder. I can't
say whether that will fill in the necessary fields or not. It might
screw them up and you'd have to delete the source and start over. I
really don't know. Does the scan option actually do anything on a
Prime when the cablecard is installed?


-- 
Ron Frazier