[mythtv-users] Is this database corruption?

[James Miller]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2015, James Miller wrote:

> schedule info beyond a couple of days on OTA channels. So I'm continuing to 
> investigate.

I got this fixed. Continuing to research the issue, and having noted the 
message "No channels are configured to use grabber" among the output I 
would get when running mythfilldatabse, I ran across this page 
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frontend_Channel_Editor. There's some 
discussion there of xmltvid. I investigated some channels (by watching 
live TV, then hitting the "e" key) and discovered that my OTA channels did 
not have any xmltvid's entered. So I logged in to my SD account, found the 
xmltvid's for those channels, and entered them all manually through the 
frontend. Then, next time I ran mythfilldatabase, new channels were found 
for that OTA source and several updates were made. Now, when I look at the 
program guide, I see program data for those OTA channels extending out to 
about 2 weeks.

I know I never had to undertake any extra steps like that on past MythTV 
installations I've done (using Mythbuntu). I wonder why this time I did? 
Aren't those xmltvid's supposed to be automatically found and entered 
somehow? Further input will be appreciated.