[mythtv-users] Missing channels

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/09/2016 11:13 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 02/09/2016 08:33 AM, Michelle Dupuis wrote:
>> I have an HD-PVR (connected to a sat box).  So the HD-PVR is dumb...I 
>> have to somehow tell it that I have new channels
>
> So you're using an externally-tuned input, which means it's 
> non-scannable, so you can use mythfilldatabase to add channels. It 
> should do so automatically unless you explicitly disable the behavior 
> with --remove-new-channels.  If you're not seeing it adding the "new" 
> channels, they're not new--they exist in your database but may have 
> wrong information in them.  If that's the case, you can use the 
> channel editor to go through all the channels and--through comparing 
> XMLTV IDs to the ones--find the ID of the channels you think are 
> missing and then either edit the channel's data or delete it.  Then, 
> go through all the other channels to find out if any others are broken 
> (i.e. duplicate channels or channels without XMLTV IDs or channels 
> with incorrect matching of XMLTV ID with channel data or ...).
>
> If it were me, however, I'd just delete the Video Source (or, really, 
> I'd "Delete All Video Sources") and then re-create the Video Source 
> and re-connect the Inputs, including doing a "Fetch channels from 
> listings source" when connecting the first Input.

Oh, and if the channels really aren't in the database (no channel in the 
database has the new channel's XMLTV ID), you probably need to use 
mythfilldatabase --do-not-filter-new-channels (if the channels are 
marked by Schedules Direct as ATSC/QAM--which generally means they must 
be scanned, but in this case they aren't because you're using an 
external tuner).

Mike