[mythtv-users] Recovering when zap2it screws the pooch---a warning & some questions

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/20/2006 12:09 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:

>    Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:32:46 -0400
>    From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
>
>    > >I might have been confusing when I said "OTA", since I meant "the
>    > >over-the-air SD ANALOG channels".  Does that ticket address analog
>    > >channels or only digital ones?
>
>    Analog and digital.  Analog is fixed.  (For analog, it primarily only 
>    affected cable (and satellite?) users.)  Digital is not yet fixed.
>
>    Either way, since you're still using 0.18.1, you don't have the fix.  
>    Therefore, even though analog just got fixed, you don't have the fix.
>
>Right, this much I know. :)
>
>(I'm still assuming that DD is at fault here, though, since they can't
>assume well, unless they get it from my certificate code and know
>about this particular Myth ticket and assume I'm running it :) that
>when I'm talking to labs.zap2it.com as a human using their web pages,
>they can put the channels in the table in some arbitrary numbering;
>the numbers I see in the little enable/disable-checkboxes form are
>supposed to match the ordering on my cable feed [or whatever], and
>they just don't, for one of the lineups.
>

Because of the way mythfilldatabase is interpreting the data that's 
returned by DD, not because of the data...

>  I'm guessing they had some
>sort of major data-importing snafu [there are suspicious patterns with
>extra or missing 7's in the channel numbers, for example].  Even if
>Myth can (now) magically cope because it downloads additional data in
>-its- downloads (which aren't going through this human-readable web
>page), the randomized assignments on the web page make it difficult
>for humans to find their channels to enable or disable them, because
>the channel numbers are wrong and the callsigns aren't sorted, either,
>so it devolves to linear search.  That can't be what they intend.)
>  
>

Oh, so if you're saying that going to http://labs.zap2it.com/ and 
viewing or modifying your lineup shows channels on the wrong channel 
number/callsign combinations, then it is DataDirect's fault.  If things 
look right on the web site, but look wrong in MythTV, then it's MythTV's 
interpretation that's wrong.

Mike