[mythtv-users] how properly to rescan channels

[UB40D]

On 11 July 2015 at 17:17, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:

>
> I have looked around in capture cards, video sources, input connections
>> etc and I cannot find where it says that card 1 is set to start on
>> channel 3897 or any other channel.
>>
>
> I usually see that it's set to start on channel 'please add' - but I think
> it's inviting you to edit the starting channel in 'input connections.'


Mmh, yes, in input connections there is a field called
startng channel
with a value of
please add channels to this source
and there seems to be no way to enter any other value; the left-right
arrows have no effect, the up-down arrows move to another field and typing
a number doesn't work. So I don't see anything I can edit there.


> The 'yes please' simply gives you an opportunity to correct something that
> it sees as a problem, and 'I know what I'm doing' is almost always untrue...
>

Neither of them fixes anything, as I understand:
Yes please = throws you back in the main menu of the backend setup
(presumably so you can fix the things it flagged)
I know what I'm doing = exits the setup (presumably because you believe the
warning was incorrect)

There isn't an option to "fix the detected problem in some reasonable way".

I still don't know how to make card 1 start on any other channel...



> What should I do to clean out all channels, rescan what works today and
>> be done with it?
>>
>
> I don't have any DVB-S experience, but with DVB-T, 'scan all known
> transports' usually works as an update once I've settled on the ones I need
> - which rarely change and can often be chosen from published lists.
>

Where is this option found?

So far I have seen

input connections / scan for channels

and
channel editor / channel scan

both of which take me to the same screen which takes about half an hour to
complete a scan.

Where is "scan all known transports"? Or is it a DVB-T-only thing?

In any case, if I begin with
channel editor / delete channels
why do I still get those leftovers about starting at 3897?
What's the proper way to start from a clean slate?

Thank you
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