[mythtv-users] Follow-up to earlier question

Chris K ckotting at wideopenwest.com
Wed Dec 26 13:03:04 UTC 2007


John Drescher wrote:
>> I decided to try running mythtvsetup again from the command line to see if I
>> could grab anything useful.  As I said before, I had set up the two listings
>> sets in SD and tried to get one established as an analog set, and the other as
>> a digital.  When I clicked on "Fetch Channels from Listings Source" for the
>> Digital tuner, I got "Scan for channels first".  So I did, and then clicked on
>> "Fetch Channels from Listings Source", which got me this:
>>
>> 2007-12-25 23:08:24.376 Running for sourceid 2 ONLY because --sourceid was
>> given on command-line
>> 2007-12-25 23:08:24.379 New DB connection, total: 2
>> 2007-12-25 23:08:24.394 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 192.168.xx.xx
>> 2007-12-25 23:08:24.399 Updating source #2 (Digital (valid)) with grabber
>> schedulesdirect1
>> 2007-12-25 23:08:24.401 No channels are configured to use grabber.
>> 2007-12-25 23:08:24.402 Grabbing channel data
>>
>> So obviously, something seems to have the Digital Tuner set so that it doesn't
>> want to grab the listings from the Listings Source.  But what?
>>
>>     
>
> Have you tested your digital card using the dvb apps? Do they find
> channels? Can you view them with mplayer?
>
> See here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Adding_Digital_Cable_Channels_%28For_ATSC/QAM_Tuner_Cards_--_USA/Canada%29
>
> John
>
>   
John -

Thanks for the quick response.  I didn't test it using the  dvb apps, I 
simply went to "Watch TV", and changed to a digital HD channel.  It 
worked just fine.  I'll check out he wiki and get back.

Thanks again.

Chris K.


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