[mythtv-users] DirecTV issue

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/27/2006 12:47 AM, Jon Bishop wrote:
> What ended up working for me was updating the channel list on zap2it  
> AND truncating my program table, then removing the card from seteup  
> and re-adding the card, source, and input. This removed all the old  
> entries, and updated the new ones.

That's why this should be fixed using the "Delete All" button for video 
sources followed by deleting the broken capture card (when required).  
The "Delete All" button clears all the appropriate data.  It's the 
/only/ button that will do so.

Mike "doesn't feel like cleaning up the top-posting mess below" Dean

>  I believe this has something to do  
> with how myth handles multiple inputs, and my comcast channels still  
> being in the database, but am unsure. If someone could explain this  
> better, that would be swell, but otherwise, seems to be working now,  
> so I'm good.
>
> ~Jon
>
> On Nov 25, 2006, at 7:19 PM, Tu Holmes wrote:
>
>   
>> I believe you will want to remove the extra channels from either your
>> zap2it profile or from within mythtv's setup itself.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/25/06, Jon Bishop <jon.the.wise at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> I have an older release of myth, installed 0.19 when it was first
>>> released, and had some issues making everything work. I got
>>> everything working smoothly, and was running a master backend and a
>>> slave backend, both with hauppage wintv go cards in them. Anyway,
>>> once I got everything working I've been hesitant to upgrade again...
>>>
>>> So, now I've moved to somewhere with no cable, and no broadband, so I
>>> have directv hooked up, and I downloaded the directv.pl script and it
>>> seems to be working, I chmod'ed the com port so I can run directv.pl
>>> as any user and from the command line it changes the channel exactly
>>> as it's supposed to. When I try to watch live tv though, mythtv
>>> immediately tries to change my channel to 4003 (which is
>>> unavailable). As I flip up and down between channels, it starts
>>> putting it on several other 4 digit channels I don't get.
>>>
>>> I've removed my comcast listing from sources, removed the capture
>>> card completely in mythtv-setup, and then readded, and added the DTV
>>> input, I updated my listings on zap2it and ran mythfilldatabase, and
>>> can't think of anything else I can do to resolve this issue.
>>>
>>> Please help, as I'm going to miss my shows if I don't get this
>>> working by tomorrow.'
>>>