[mythtv-users] editing channel frequencies (UK)

[Stephen Tait]

At 10:15 05/05/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>Glad to hear you've finally got it going. I had a few similar problems to
>what your having below, answers also below.
>
>When I first set up myth it got the channel numbers horribly wrong and the
>frequencies too. When changing channel (up or down rather than directly
>selecting a number) it tries to find the next available channel using an
>algorithm I couldn't figure out. Ok so I didn't spend that long on it, and I
>just used myth web to adjust the frequency and channel numbers. I might also
>have changed an option in the TV settings menu to order by channel number.
>I'm not sure if that'll help much.

How odd. I edited the channel numbers directly in the SQL db, but now I've 
emerged MythWeb and am looking at the channel settings now (through links, 
aargh!), and the frequencies seem completely different.
The data from my channel finding script using ptune.pl to change channels 
gave me these numbers:

Channel 26              BBC 1 (London)          511250 8180
Channel 33:             BBC 2 (London)          567250 9076
Channel 23:             ITV (London)            487250 7796
Channel 30:             Ch4                     543250 8692
Channel 37:             5                       599250 9588

I'm assuming the "freqid" is the second of the two numbers listed (they 
were both numbers spat out by ptune.pl - was never quite sure what they 
meant), since the freqid entry in the db has a varchar limit of 5. I'll 
just go and update 'em now, but I won't be able to test them out yet (why 
doesn't Windows have a built-in X client?! Argh!). Most people tell me to 
use the settings file from xawtv, but IIRC xawtv can't understand MPEG2 
streams.

I've been reading up on this issue obviously, and like you say this problem 
seems to be due to wrong channel settings for both PAL and NTSC users, so 
it now looks like this is my only remaining problem. Once I get the right 
numbers in I'll be all set, wahoo!


> > 2) Both the program guide, manual schedule and the OSD are
> > all empty, which
> > I find odd to say the least. Especially considering that the
> > program finder
> > is packed with all kinds of stuff. Well, not all kinds, just
> > TV kinds of stuff.
> >
>
>No idea, I thought when you had xmltv running you'd have this going. :(

Sorry, this was related to my dumbness regarding the time error. Once I'd 
corrected the time, the program guide became nice and choc full. I'm 
assuming it's some sort of a bug/misconfiguration issue that no one else 
has been stupid enough to run across ;^)


> > 3) Arr. Myth is displaying the wrong time - it's running an
> > hour ahead of
> > BST. Oops, just checked system time and *that's* an hour
> > ahead too - d'oh!.
> > Sorry, ignore this one!
> >
>
>Since you using Gentoo, I'll assume you've symlinked the correct zone-info.
>When I had this problem, updateing /etc/rc.conf and changing a line that
>looks something like
>  CLOCK=UTC
>
>To
>  CLOCK=local
>
>(maybe a reboot too)
>
>That brought everything into line.

When I installed the machine, I stupidly set the BIOS to BST instead of 
GMT. Hence when I told Gentoo I lived in the UK, it helpfully added an hour 
onto the hwclock for me.