[mythtv-users] Entering Antenna channels in V31

Monkey Pet monkeypet at gmail.com
Thu May 14 02:08:23 UTC 2020


On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 6:53 PM Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:

> I have been fighting with this for two hours now with no success. I want
> to start using my old HDHOMERUN (the original white one with two tuners) to
> record channels off of an antenna. The end goal is to dump Comcast, but the
> streaming services in my area (Denver) mostly do not have the local
> channels, so I would like to get those OTA.
>
> I have the HDHR working, I scanned for channels, and I can Watch (Live) TV
> using them just fine, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get
> the guide data to be entered for these channels. I have tried entering the
> XMTVID using the channel editor in mythtv-setup, both with and without
> checking the "Use On-Air Gulde" box, and using both just the 5 digit number
> and the new I#####.json.schedulesdirect.org form. No joy. What is the
> magic incantation to make this work?
>

Hi Greg, so after i scanned for the channels. I setup  XMLTV.
Mythfilldatabase will populate all the XMTVID automatically after you
get XMLTV setup correctly.  You need to follow the instructions here,
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV


>
>

> Thanks,
> --Greg
>
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