[mythtv-users] Is it possible to use EIT for some channels temporarily while witing for SD?

Craig Treleaven ctreleaven at cogeco.ca
Fri May 1 11:30:13 UTC 2015


At 3:02 AM -0400 5/1/15, Ian Evans wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Bill Meek 
><<mailto:keemllib at gmail.com>keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 04/30/2015 07:46 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
>I did that at 7pm and immediately upon going to the guide the two channels
>showed guide info from 5pm until 8pm. After 8 it just says DTV program. I
>know some channels only have a few hours of EIT data but curious why it
>showed me earlier hours but not any shows coming up. How often is EIT
>scanned? Which logs should I check?
>
>Once the backend is running, type: mythbackend --setverbose eit
>and then watch mythbackend.log.
>
>Also checked with TSReader. Turns out the two subchannels are 
>actually sending out "DTV Program" in their EIT data while the main 
>channel is sending out "WKBW / ABC Program". Alerted the station.
>
>Can't wait till the listings are up on Schedules Direct, but I'm not 
>sure it's a delay on their end. Even Zap2it doesn't have listings 
>for the channels.

Have you filed a report with SchedulesDirect?  I'd like to follow it 
so I know when to rescan.

Craig



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