<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 24/02/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick Morrott</b> <<a href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 23/02/07, David Campbell <<a href="mailto:dave@cpfc.org">dave@cpfc.org</a>> wrote:<br>> Nick Morrott wrote:<br>> > On 23/02/07, David Campbell <<a href="mailto:dave@cpfc.org">dave@cpfc.org</a>> wrote:
<br>> >> David Watkins wrote:<br>> >>> I think it's waiting for input from you, to select channels. That's<br>> >>> what the --configure switch does.<br>> >>><br>> >>> If you tab to the terminal window where you started mythtv-setup you
<br>> >>> should be able to go through the (text-based) xmltv config; and when<br>> >>> you finish you will be back to the mythtv-setup screen.<br>> >> Thanks - that was the case.<br>> >>
<br>> >> Setup and mythfilldatabase both ran successfully but I'm still not<br>> >> seeing any programme information when changing channels etc. perhaps<br>> >> I'm missing something specifc to UK channels?
<br>> ><br>> > Make sure you have XMLTV IDs associated with all channels you<br>> > configured in mythtv-setup. You can use either mythtv-setup or MythWeb<br>> > to do this.<br>><br>> Thanks - I went to mythweb and deleted all the channels without an ID,
<br>> but now when I go to watch Live TV I get the blurb about the tuner not<br>> responding and a black screen.<br>><br>> The backend log tells me:<br>><br>> 2007-02-23 20:47:50.744 DVBChan(1) Error: Unable to find channel in
<br>> database.<br>> 2007-02-23 20:47:50.745 DVBChan(1) Error: SetChannelByString(abc1):<br>> Failed to initialize channel options<br>> 2007-02-23 20:47:50.746 TVRec(2) Error: Failed to set channel to abc1.<br>
> 2007-02-23 20:48:05.406 TVRec(2): PauseRecorder() called with no recorder<br>> 2007-02-23 20:48:05.423 DVBChan(1) Error: Unable to find channel in<br>> database.<br>> 2007-02-23 20:48:05.425 DVBChan(1) Error: SetChannelByString(five):
<br>> Failed to initialize channel options<br>> 2007-02-23 20:48:05.426 TVRec(2) Error: Failed to set channel to five.<br><br>What you did was delete all the correctly configured (except for their<br>XMLTVID) channels and leave a lot of unconfigured channels that do
<br>have XMLTVIDs. All settings need to be consistent - 1 set of valid<br>channels with valid XMLTVIDs. I would delete all of your channels and<br>then<br><br>I have not had to manually scan for and configure channels in<br>
mythtv-setup since I set my systems up over 2 years ago, but I'm very<br>sorry (and annoyed although I do not currently have the skillset to<br>fix this) the process is still so user-unfriendly and cumbersome (but<br>
hey, this is Linux...).<br><br>Last year I made available channel/XMLTVID information for all major<br>UK providers with the hope that a better solution could be developed,<br>but as yet nothing has been released that I am aware of.
<br><br>Nick<br>--<br>MythTV Official wiki:<br><a href="http://mythtv.org/wiki/">http://mythtv.org/wiki/</a><br>MythTV users list archive:<br><a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users
</a><br><br>"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a></blockquote><div><br><br>Something similar was created a few years ago for myth users in the UK, where you picked the channel package you had, and it automatically populated the database, however it was pulled, I think due to conflicts with XMLTV themselves.
<br><br>Would it not be possible to knock up a shell script to do an sql import directly into myth's channel table. We'd still have the problem of myth-setup trying to configure tv_grab_uk_rt, but it would save loads of tedious mucking about, although I've only done once or twice in about 4 years.
<br><br>gary<br></div><br></div><br>