[mythtv-users] Freesat and missing red button

[Gavin Whitehead]

On 06/02/2012 08:45, Lawrence Rust wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 21:47 +0000, Gavin Whitehead wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I don't seem to have a Red Button channel in my 'channel' table.
>>
>> I am running v0.24.2-3-ge4660d6 on Ubuntu 11.10.  I have a TBS 6981 Dual
>> DVB-S2 card.  I have tried re-scanning a couple of times with the same
>> result.  My channel table has 472 entries in it but none of them look
>> like the Red Button channel.
>>
>> Each time I re-scan I delete all Video Sources and Capture cards.  I
>> then add the Capture cards in (one per tuner) and a Video Source of
>> EIT.  When I scan for channels I follow the advice on Garry Parkers site
>> (http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_freesat.php) and do two scans:
> [snip]
>> I seem to be able to watch all the channels which are in my 'channel' table.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
> When you scan ensure that you select Desired services: All.  The BBC Red
> button channels are marked as data.  Unfortunately, this will result in
> many more channels being detected.  Suggest that you use a script (like
> the Wiki www.mythtv.org/wiki/UK_Channel_Assignments) to hide the
> unwanted.
>
> You can list the BBC data channels:
> mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv -D mythconverg -e"\
>   select channum,serviceid from channel\
>   where default_authority like '%bbc.co.uk' and callsign not like 'bbc%'"
>
OK.  I've done (yet another) scan, this time for 'All' rather than just 
'TV + Radio'.
When I run that bit of SQL the output is:

channum    name    serviceid
6711    6711    6711
6712    6712    6712
6713    6713    6713
6714    6714    6714
6715    6715    6715
6762    ETV3    6762
6780    T7 STRM-0    6780
6317    CBBC Channel    6317
6407    ETV2    6407
6418    CBeebies    6418
6945    6945    6945
13    6945    6945

The first 5 appear to be related to the red button with 6715 seeming to 
be the master/menu channel (the one you can make selections from).

Thanks,

Gav