[mythtv-users] Program Guide Unknown

[Daryl McDonald]

Thanks this helped a lot. I ended up manually editing the channels in the
back end with name, call sign and XMLID, from schedules direct. Listings
are slowly migrating in now. Thanks again.


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 06/12/2013 09:25 AM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>
>> This is day 2 of the  7 day free trial with Schedules Direct, and I can't
>> get program information to load in the guide. If I scan for channels first
>> (in input connections, back end) then I can't fetch channels, when I wipe
>> and start again and try to fetch first, I get visual acknowledgment of a
>> click but no fetching. I've gone to Schedules Direct raw data showed add
>> new lineup, did that, now it shows scads of info but still "unknown" in the
>> guide. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>
> If you're using an "internal" digital tuner (i.e. directly using the tuner
> from MythTV versus using an external set-top box that outputs analog to an
> encoder, like the HD-PVR or PVR-x50), you need to scan for channels and
> then map the Schedules Direct XMLTV IDs to the channels found by the scan
> using the mythtv-setup or MythWeb channel editor.  You /never/ use "Fetch
> channels from listings source" with digital tuners.
>
> See http://www.gossamer-threads.**com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#**264034<http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034>for how to clean up your current configuration ("Delete all video sources")
> and then re-create your Video Source, then re-connect your input(s), then
> scan for channels, then use the channel editor to set the XMLTV IDs, then
> run mythfilldatabase from the command line.
>
> Mike
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