[mythtv-users] DataDirect data incomplete?

[Eric Gilbert]

On 11/17/06, Robert Tsai <mythtv at tsaiberspace.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:32:50PM -0700, John P Poet wrote:
> > On 11/16/06, Fred Oliver <foliver at net1plus.com> wrote:
> > > DataDirect program guide downloads have been working will until
> > > today. The files being downloaded today contain very few (8?)
> > > programs on a shopping channel.
> > >
> > > It seems to be that zap2it.com access is not working correctly.
> > > Does anyone know what is going on?
> >
> > Happened to me too.
> >
> > I signed into my account on labs.zap2it.com, and found that one of
> > my channel line-ups had been corrupted.  Only about 10% of the
> > channels where showing up.  I actually had to delete the line-up and
> > re-create it, to get all the channels back.
> >
> > Unfortunately, it was my OTA HD line-up, and I made the mistake of
> > giving mythfilldatabase the "--do-channel-updates" option trying to
> > get my database updated.  Result was the atsc_major_chan and
> > atsc_minor_chan columns had incorrect values in them.
>
> This happened to me too (also an OTA HD line-up). Furthermore, they
> seem to have eliminated all of the subchannels (no more 2-1, 2-2,
> etc.), so it looks like a regular analog channel lineup or something.
> So currently, I have no listings information.
>
> This is for a SF Bay Area peninsula lineup, in case this problem is
> localized or something.
>
> I actually don't know how to fix this. Any clues?
>
> --Rob

Here is another sort of "me too" in the East Bay (Berkeley,CA).

My analog OTA lineup was fine but my digital OTA lineup was missing
everything but KCSMDT channel 43.

They changed the digital channels to use their actual channel number
rather than their associated analog sub channel number. Also it looks
like the change makes the lineup appear corrupted.

What I did to fix it was:
click the modify button for the lineup
then without changing anything click the save button
then re click the modify button for the lineup and reselect the digital channels

Now instead of KQED-HD being channel 9.1 in the lineup config it is
channel 30 (the actual UHF channel).

You could just delete the lineup and re add it, but I didn't feel like
re-running myth-setup.

Hope this helps,
Eric