[mythtv-users] What happened to the ability to scan a range of channels?

[jksj]

On 07/08/18 17:03, Douglas Peale wrote:
> On 08/07/2018 01:48 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 07/08/18 06:29, Douglas Peale wrote:
>>> What happened to the ability to scan a range of channels?
>>>
>>> I have two antennas aimed about 20 degrees apart. Both see all channels from both directions, but each sees the channels from
>>> its direction much better than the other direction.
>>>
>>> After a full scan, I must delete all channels from the other direction to prevent MythTV from choosing a source with bad
>>> reception.
>>>
>>> While doing this, I accidentally deleted one channel. I tried to manually add it back, but I was not able to select ATSC as the
>>> type as it does not appear in the selection list.
>>>
>>> So I tried a full scan, assuming I could choose which ones to add by selecting manual. Nope. there is now way to skip one
>>> channel. You can skip a type, but not a single channel.
>>>
>>> Worse, I had edited all of the channel numbers from xx_yy to xx.yy. MythTV changed them all back to xx_yy.
>>>
>>> I can't even use mythweb to edit the channels. It will display them, but when I try to save the changes, it gives me an error,
>>> and displays the old values.
>>>
>>> Rant complete.
>>
>> I haven't tried anything like this. but I think you need to define two Video Sources in mythtv-setup, one for each antenna.
>> Then in the Channel scanning/editing section you should be able to scan separately for each, using a 'full scan' or perhaps,
>> after a first run,
>>   'all known transports.'
>>
>>
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> I actually am already doing this. I have three video sources defined, one each for my three antennas.
>
> The problem is that I had accidentally deleted a channel, so none of the scans would add it back except the full scan.
> Unfortunately, that goes and adds all the channels from two antennas, a few from the third, and changes the channel number on
> all of them.
>
> I end up with 54 channels for which I need to edit or delete every one. To edit 54_1 to 54.1, requires 11 keystrokes in myth
> backend setup. It is a little easier in mythweb, but mythweb was not working at the time.
>
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The channel editor in Mythsetup allows individual transponder scanning, 
so if you get the details from 
https://en.kingofsat.net/freqs.php?&pos=28.2E&standard=All&ordre=freq&filtre=Clear 


its pretty simple to restore deleted items without sucking in the lot.

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