[mythtv-users] how properly to rescan channels

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Sat Jul 11 17:56:15 UTC 2015


Hoi UB40D,

Saturday, July 11, 2015, 7:35:06 PM, you wrote:

>> 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.
>>
>> As far as I remember this is not fatal and the field gets reset to the
>> last channel used on livetv.


> On the basis of this I have tried answering
> "no, I know what I am doing" (as if...)
> and closed the back-end setup.

> End result...
> I no longer can watch live tv on any channel, meaning also I can't record
> anything.

> With "watch tv" I just get a brief flick of "please wait" and it reverts to
> the main frontend menu, without ever displaying a picture.


> So this question still stands:

Do you perchance use a buggy theme? In mythcenter-wide I can edit the
field, parse with left/right or open the dropdownlist with a mouse to
select?
Also as far as I know this only affects live-tv not recording.
A possible workaround is to set live-tv to start with the epg and
parse to a valid channel.
Or if you feel save to edit the database directly:
In the cardinput table edit the startchan field.

>> What's the proper way to start from a clean slate?




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