<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Douglas Peale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Douglas_Peale@comcast.net">Douglas_Peale@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On 10/09/2010 04:22 PM, Robert McNamara wrote:<br>
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:17 PM, James Orr <<a href="mailto:james.orr7@gmail.com">james.orr7@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Robert McNamara <<a href="mailto:robert.mcnamara@gmail.com">robert.mcnamara@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:02 PM, James Orr <<a href="mailto:james.orr7@gmail.com">james.orr7@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> OK, I did try that prior to scte65scan but I guess I got confused and I<br>
>>>> did<br>
>>>> see a reference in the wiki to use scte65scan if you're on comcast so I<br>
>>>> went<br>
>>>> there.<br>
>>>> So, here's what I'm doing ...<br>
>>>> 1. Remove tuners<br>
>>>> 2. Adding both back in.<br>
>>>> 3. Going to connections and associating them with my OTA listing on<br>
>>>> schedules direct.<br>
>>>> 4. Hitting Scan For Channels<br>
>>>> 5. Changing Frequency Table to "Cable"<br>
>>>> 6. Hit "Next", the scan starts. A lot of "Timed out, no signal"<br>
>>>> messages<br>
>>>> and a few "Timed out, x possible channels" messages, usually preceded by<br>
>>>> a<br>
>>>> few "Program XX encrypted" lines.<br>
>>>> 7. Now I get "Found 49 off air channels" and the options are "Delete<br>
>>>> All",<br>
>>>> "Set All Invisible" or "Ignore All". I picked Delete.<br>
>>>> 8. "Found 7 old SCTE channels", I chose "Update All"<br>
>>>> 9. "Found 9 old MPEG channels", I chose "Update All"<br>
>>>> 10. "Found 8 new non-conflicting MPEG channe;s", I chose "Insert All"<br>
>>>> 11. "Found 1 new conflicting SCTE channel", I chose "Insert All" and<br>
>>>> took<br>
>>>> the suggested channel number.<br>
>>>> 12. "Found 16 conflicting old SCTE channels, I chose "Update all"<br>
>>>> 13. "Found 12 new conflicting MPEG channels", I chose "Insert All" and<br>
>>>> took<br>
>>>> the suggested channel number.<br>
>>>> 14. "Found 3 conflicing old MPEG channels", I chose "Update all"<br>
>>>> 15. "Found 136 unused transports", I chose "Delete All"<br>
>>>> 16. And finally click finish.<br>
>>>> Did I do that right, and what do I do next?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Update to current .23-fixes (revision 26178 or later), redo steps 1-6,<br>
>>> you should find that you no longer get conflicting channels. Then<br>
>>> just go through in the channel editor and associate the XMLTVids with<br>
>>> your channels as normal, renumber channels as necessary, and... done.<br>
>>> Slightly more involved than using SCTE65 scan, but at least you will<br>
>>> have found all of your channels.<br>
>>><br>
>> Sorry, this may be a dumb question but how do you get the XMLTV ids?<br>
><br>
> Run the "report" function at <a href="http://schedulesdirect.org" target="_blank">schedulesdirect.org</a> on your lineup, or<br>
> hover over them in the web channel editor and see the tooltip.<br>
><br>
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</div></div>Unfortunately, this is still a bit more complicated than it should be.<br>
<br>
1) the schedules direct listing will show the mapping between Comcasts idea of channel number and XMLID.<br>
2) MythTV uses frequencyID and subchannel to identify the channel, but it will never show you the subchannel (latest versions of<br>
MythTV seem to name the channel with the frequencyID underscore Subchannel. This is a huge improvement)<br>
3) SCTE65 scan will show you the mapping between frequencyID & subchannel to Comcasts idea of channel number, but only for the<br>
standard definition channels they want you to know about.<br>
<br>
Comcast in my area passes the OTA channel mapping through their system, so callsigns and channel numbers get set to their OTA<br>
values.<br>
<br>
So most of the channel XMLIDs you can get by looking at the scte65scan output, and schedulesdirect.<br>
The OTA channels you should be able to figure out by looking at the call signs and schedulesdirect.<br>
But that will always leave a handful of stations that you will just have to watch until they identify themselves.<br>
<br>
So the procedure is:<br>
Find the frequency ID & Subchannel number for the channel in the channel editor, and look at the scte65scan output to figure out<br>
what comcasts channel number is for that channel.<br>
With Comcasts channel number, find the XMLID in the schedules direct list and type that number into the channel editor.<br>
<br>
When you run out of channels you can identify this way, look at the call signs for the channel in the channel editor (these will<br>
only appear for the few OTA channels that comcast passes this data through for). find that callsign in the schedules direct<br>
listing and copy its XMLID to the channel editor.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm still having a few issues.</div><div><br></div><div>I did upgrade to 0.23.1 build 26437 (I'm on gentoo and that's the most recent ebuild) and redid the scan.</div>
<div><br></div><div>First, when I go to the channel editor, I have no callsigns listed in the channels. They all say "(Unnamed: 4099)", with different numbers on each obviously. </div><div><br></div><div>Next, when I start up the backend (HDHR records on a slave backend) I get these messages in the log ...</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>2010-10-10 10:33:46.545 MainServer: HandleRemoteEncoder(cmd IS_BUSY) Unknown encoder: 26</div><div>2010-10-10 10:33:46.555 MainServer: HandleRemoteEncoder(cmd GET_MAX_BITRATE) Unknown encoder: 26</div>
<div>2010-10-10 10:33:46.575 MainServer: HandleRemoteEncoder(cmd IS_BUSY) Unknown encoder: 27</div><div>2010-10-10 10:33:46.585 MainServer: HandleRemoteEncoder(cmd GET_MAX_BITRATE) Unknown encoder: 27</div></div><div><br>
</div><div>This must be something left over in the database, but deleting the tuners and adding them back makes no difference. I can't find the references to encoders 26 and 27 in the database either.</div><div><br></div>
<div>When I go in to Live TV I just get my HDPVR and when I go to change inputs there are no options.</div></div>