[mythtv-users] Starting channel w/pcHDTV3K

Paul Leppert phlepper at gmail.com
Sat Jan 29 10:51:46 EST 2005


On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:57:10 -0500, Tom E. Craddock, Jr.
<sigtom at sigtom.com> wrote:
> $ Running as a slave backend.
> 2005-01-29 00:54:07.381 Channel(/dev/dtv): CheckChannel failed. Please
> verify channel "3" in the "setup" Channel Editor.
> 2005-01-29 00:54:07.385 mythbackend version: 0.17.20050128-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2005-01-29 00:54:07.385 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> 2005-01-29 00:54:08.592 Connecting to master server: 192.168.1.22:6543
> 2005-01-29 00:54:08.596 Connected successfully
> 
> channel 3 isnt even a valid channel for that card, its not listed
> anywhere in the channel editor for that video inputs channels.  It
> starts at 8, then 8_1, 8_2, .....44_1. Heres the signal I get for that
> channel (44_1)
> 

Tom,

Check your "input connections" in mythsetup.  The input for your HDTV
setting has the starting channel (mine is set at 7.3, which is the
channel number (7.3=freqid 52-5)).

You can also check in mysql:
mysql> select * from cardinput;
+-------------+--------+----------+------------+-----------------+------------+-----------+----------+-----------+
| cardinputid | cardid | sourceid | inputname  | externalcommand |
preference | shareable | tunechan | startchan |
+-------------+--------+----------+------------+-----------------+------------+-----------+----------+-----------+
|           1 |      1 |        1 | Television |                 |    
     0 | N         |          | 7.3       |
|           2 |      2 |        2 | S-Video    |                 |    
     0 | N         |          | 206       |
|           3 |      1 |        2 | S-Video    |                 |    
     0 | N         |          | 206       |
+-------------+--------+----------+------------+-----------------+------------+-----------+----------+-----------+

I've got three inputs, but the first one is the HDTV setting.  Also,
make sure you are using the "programnumber" reported by dtvscan for
the minor channel (and not minorchannelnumber).  As in my example, my
7.3 = freqid 52-5 where dtvscan reports minorchannelnum = 3 and
programnumber = 5 (myth wants the programnumber).

Hope this helps (it was very confusing to me which of the three
numbers I was supposed to be putting where).

phlepper

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