[mythtv-users] UK Freeview scanning broken?

[Another Sillyname]

Which transmitter?

On 24 March 2017 at 01:44, Justin Hornsby <justin0hornsby at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've had cause to rescan tonight so we can continue to use the channel 'Tiny
> Pop' which my kids seem to have grown accustomed to.
>
> So off I went into mythtv-setup, stopped mythbackend, yada yada.. so far so
> good right?
>
> Until the scanner found umpteen dozen channels I never had before - all with
> the wrong channel numbers.  I deleted all the channels & tried a full scan.
> Again, BBC ONE etc all had completely meaningless channel numbers - not the
> LCNs you'd expect of Freeview channels. BBC ONE NE&C came out with a channum
> of 4169 instead of 1 for example.
>
> So then I went & cleaned out everything from the database to do with channel
> storage (naughty) - and did a full scan again.  Same story.
>
> The dvb 'scan' (not dvbscan) utility came up trumps but of course doesn't
> seem to output LCNs.
>
> Has something changed radically with Freeview lately that might have broken
> myth's scanning?  I'm very out of touch with how DVB scanning works in the
> program these days - is there a fixup needed?  Would posting dvb stream
> dumps help?  My TV, FWIW, manages to scan channels just fine so I don't
> think the local transmitter is borked.
>
> Anyone have any ideas what's up?
>
> Best regards,
> Justin
>
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