[mythtv-users] Getting All Channels with Rogers Digital Cable

[Taylan Pince]

Thanks a lot to everyone for their help. I have already ordered that  
cheap IR Blaster and I will be setting it up as soon as I get it.

Cheers,
Taylan


On 30-Aug-06, at 9:45 AM, Claude Boucher wrote:

> Taylan Pince a écrit :
>
> I encountered the same problem when I first set up my Myth system 18
> months ago. As the previous posters said, the idea is to connect your
> Scientific Atlanta (that's what Rogers is using, right?) set-top  
> box to
> your PVR350 to record the digital channels. The channel changing
> operations can be done with an IR Blaster connected to the serial port
> of your Myth backend.
>
> While you're at it, you might also want to consider buying a second
> capture card (such as a PVR150/PVR500) to record the 30 or so analog
> channels (CBC, CTV, Global, CITY, TVO, the US networks...). The system
> is flexible enough so you can asign priorities to channels in order to
> record them on "classic" cable instead of "wasting" recording time on
> your digital cable input. This way, you'll be able to record Peter
> Mansbridge on one tuner while taping  some show/movie on a digital- 
> only
> channel.
>
> Claude
>> Hello,
>>
>> After two nights of preparations, I finally have my MythTV box
>> running on FC4 happily... more or less!
>>
>> The problem seems to be with my cable provider, but I just wanted to
>> get some advice before trying anything else. I have the full TV
>> package from Rogers Digital Cable in Toronto, Canada. When I run the
>> cable connection directly to my PVR-350's tuner input, I only seem to
>> be able to see the first 30 channels or so (the basic package) on
>> MythTV. The rest of the channels only show static.
>>
>> I can of course run the cable through the Rogers Digital Receiver and
>> fix MythTV on one channel (3). Then I can see all the channels by
>> using the receiver, but that beats the whole purpose of setting up a
>> MythTV box.
>>
>> I found some information on the wiki about the channels.conf file and
>> the QAM cable layout, but I have no idea where the channels.conf file
>> is located. So I couldn't try this yet, not sure if it'll help:
>>
>>
>
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