[mythtv-users] Teething problem - duplicate channels

Andrew Lyon andrew.lyon at gmail.com
Sun Nov 5 13:13:18 UTC 2006


On 11/5/06, Antony Gelberg <antony at wayforth.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just set up a MythTV box with a single DVB-T card, and I can easily
> say it's been one of the most rewarding home computing experiences I've
> had for years.  I look forward to getting my teeth stuck further in.
>
> I have a question about the channel listing.  In the mythtv-setup
> channel listing, all is fine.  However, if I look at it via mythweb
> (much more useful imo), or indeed via the EPG, there is something odd
> happening.
>
> First in the list - all the channels that it should have picked up for
> Freeview, radio included.  However, xmltvid is empty, so these get
> nothing in the EPG.  Further on in the list are the TV channels,
> duplicated from above, with xmltvid filled in, and channum set to a name
> not number (e.g. "BBC ONE So" instead of 1.
>
> I'd like to know why this might have happened, and what is the correct
> set of channels to keep?  Do I keep the ones with the real channums and
> fill in the xmltvids manually?

Thats what I did, I  manually entered the xmltvid's into the channels
I wanted to use and then ran mythfilldatabase.

Timeconsuming, but it worked.. and hopefully you will only need to do it once.

Andy

> The only thing that I did wrong during install was to tell tv_grab_uk_rt
> to pick up all channels first time, as told /not/ to do in
> http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Uk_xmltv!
>
> However, I don't think it caused any problems - I killed it when I
> realised what I'd done, and re-ran tv_grab_uk_rt manually (outside
> myth-setup), and deleted the lines for channels I don't need, then ran
> mythfillbackend again, which was much quicker.  All the channels in my
> EPG are correct, it's just that some are there twice, with either a real
> channum or an xmltvid.
>
> Hope I've explained this well enough.
>
> Antony
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