[mythtv-users] Anyone with a MythTV and Free-to-air satellite setup in the United States?

[Robert Kulagowski]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Amy Overmyer <aovermy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> on a traxis, you would need a bunch of channels, as many as the traxis could
> see (or as many as you want to record/watch) in a database with channel
> numbers of some sort (many people choose numbers like 83_1, 83_2...93_1,
> 101_1 etc. based on the satellite they're pointing at).

If there are 20 available FTA on a particular transponder, it looks
like a combination of polarity, frequency and vpid are unique. But
that's a lot of typing! Do people just let their receivers run a scan,
then assign "1", "2", etc locally, so that possibly _my_ 101_1 may not
be the same as yours?