[mythtv-users] USA OTA FCC frequency rescan?

[Justin Alcorn]

We just had that warning, these steps are what got it working for me.
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 10:22 AM Jay Harbeston <jharbestonus at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> > On Aug 12, 2019, at 9:13 AM, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > So my local OTA channels have started the warning about September 6 and
> doing a rescan to continue receiving their channels.
> >
> > My backend is mythtv v30 with 2 tuner systems.  One is a PCIe card, the
> HAUPPAUGE WinTV-quadHD PCI Express TV Tuner Card 1609. The other is a
> SiliconDust HDHomerun Quatro.
> >
> > I currently get my EPG from SchedulesDirect via
> tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite. The Input Connections for both sets of tuners,
> i.e. 8-tuners, use the same Video Source which is the one setup to use
> tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite.
> >
> > Can someone point me to instructions or discussion on what to do in my
> case? I think the rescan is done externally to mythtv-setup using steps
> defined at https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV for initial setup, but I
> remember that if not careful you can loose Recording rules and previously
> recorded metadata is some cases.
> >
> > Has anyone worked out a way to do the rescan without messing things up??
> >
>
> I will be doing the following steps:
>
> 1. mythconverg_backup.pl —backup_xmltvids  — # Sometime between now and
> when channels  change.
>     The created file contains two different formats, the first being a
> series of update statements using only callsign:  e.g.
>
>     UPDATE channel SET xmltvid = 'I17155.json.schedulesdirect.org' WHERE
> callsign = 'Channel 4’;
>
> The remainder are commented out.
>
> After the change has been made, do the following:
>
> 2. Stop mythbackend
> 3. Start mythtv setup
> 3.1:  Clear all the OTA channels currently setup.
> 3.2. Rescan all OTA channels
> 3.3  Exit mythtv setup
> 4.  Run the sql update statements generated above.
> 5.  Start mythbackend
>
> Regards!
>
>
>
>
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