[mythtv-users] Program Schedules: working or not? How to (re)configure?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Nov 12 13:21:03 UTC 2013


On 09/23/2013 11:44 AM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Leif Pihl wrote:
>> When either Broadcast or Cable is selected, 5/6ths of the data is identical:
>>
>> Listings Grabber:  North American (schedulesdirect.org) (Internal)
>> User id: xxxx.xxxx at xxxxx.xxx
>> Password: xxxxxx
>> Data Direct Lineup:  Comcast-Cable-Cable-55406- MN22623:-
> That's your first problem.  You should not be using a comcast lineup
> for a broadcast source.  You need to create a new lineup on the
> schedules direct website for broadcast.
>
>> x   Perform EIT Scan                    (it IS checked)
> And turn that off.  It'll cause more harm than good to use that in the U.S.

And it will completely destroy your listings data (with Schedules Direct 
and EIT stomping all over each other) if you use it and Schedules Direct 
on the same channel.

You can only use one of Schedules Direct, XMLTV, or EIT on any given 
channel.  Generally, though, if you're in the US (possibly all of North 
America?), EIT listings are garbage and you wouldn't want them, anyway.  
And, since Schedules Direct should have all of the channels you receive 
available, there's no need to use EIT on some channels and Schedules 
Direct on others, so, generally, you should just disable EIT on the 
entire Video Source and use Schedules Direct on every channel on the 
Video Source.

Mike

Mike


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