Heya all,<br><br>I seem to be banging my head against a Myth brick wall.<br>I'm in the UK with reception from around 11 frequencies, giving me around 90 channels, many of them repeated.<br>Four of those frequencies are weak, and I'd like to delete / forbid them.<br>
I'd like to keep all the duplicates of channels for the other 7 frequencies just in case I can find 2 programs on the same freq / mux at times and record both.<br>Easy huh?<br><br>Nope. I can't run a full UK channel scan in mythtv-setup because my DVB dongle gives I2C errors and needs a reset after about a dozen scans, esp if it hits a weak signal and gets scrambled data. It's fine for scanning strong signal frequencies. So that's the "preferred" method binned. [I can't find the UK full channel scan list to edit it to the frequencies I actually want either and cheat like that].<br>
I can't use a generated channels.conf file and import it, because for some reason Myth won't find EIT data for imported channel.conf channels.<br><br>I can enter the frequencies I want in myth-setup .. channel edit! YAY! Hope!!?<br>
<br>For one thing. If I set up my transport list, then do a single scan of one transport, it finds more information (including other frequencies to scan), than if I ask it to scan all known transponder frequencies. This worries me. But heigh ho. Lets go. The best I've managed so far is...<br>
<br>Setup generic "Auto" transponders for the 7 frequencies I want.<br>Scan each transponder in detail, individually and add all of the channels found including duplicates each time.<br>[If I don't add all the channels, the new found transponders don't get added to the list!!!]<br>
Go back to the channel list and delete all channels.<br>Repeat for next frequency.<br>Finally. Go back and delete the found bad transponders, and delete the generic auto transponders that now have more precise information at the same (or offset) frequencies.<br>
Delete all the channels ... again ..<br>Now I can do a scan of all known transports, add the channels and pray.<br><br>Finished? Nope. In doing this, my channelscan_channel table now has 14322 rows. I doubt that's a good thing ... My channelscan_dtv_multiplex table now has 711 rows. So as far as I can tell, when I hit delete in mythtv-setup on a transponder or channel list, it doesn't actually get deleted.<br>
Some of the channels I've got still don't get EIT data.<br>I'm still not sure if making a duplicate channel invisible stops Myth from recording from it, because nothing in the docs seems to mention that.<br>The docs don't tell me if deleting a transport will also delete linked channels either.<br>
It looks like the backend is sort of working, but sometimes it will now start to record, then silently fails, presumably because it's found the program on a channel that no longer exists. My current best option on that seems to be wait a week or so and see if the schedule data recovers.<br>
<br>All I want to do is ... Tell it the 7 good freqs. Scan the 7 good freqs. Use all of the good program feeds from the 7 good freqs. IE. Have 2 x Film4 both pointing at Film4. One from each mux. Yet this seems impossible using mythtv-setup and I can't begin to fathom what the database should look like for that configuration.<br>
<br>So. VDR? Freevo? Or use dvblast or some other external streamer to Myth that I can actually control? Because I'm about to give up on Mythtv's tuner entirely as a joke.<br><br>