[mythtv-users] tv_grab_uk_rt hanging?

[Gary Dawes]

On 24/02/07, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 23/02/07, David Campbell <dave at cpfc.org> wrote:
> > Nick Morrott wrote:
> > > On 23/02/07, David Campbell <dave at cpfc.org> wrote:
> > >> David Watkins wrote:
> > >>> I think it's waiting for input from you, to select channels. That's
> > >>> what the --configure switch does.
> > >>>
> > >>> If you tab to the terminal window where you started mythtv-setup you
> > >>> should be able to go through the (text-based) xmltv config; and when
> > >>> you finish you will be back to the mythtv-setup screen.
> > >> Thanks - that was the case.
> > >>
> > >> Setup and mythfilldatabase both ran successfully but I'm still not
> > >> seeing any programme information when changing channels etc.  perhaps
> > >> I'm missing something specifc to UK channels?
> > >
> > > Make sure you have XMLTV IDs associated with all channels you
> > > configured in mythtv-setup. You can use either mythtv-setup or MythWeb
> > > to do this.
> >
> > Thanks - I went to mythweb and deleted all the channels without an ID,
> > but now when I go to watch Live TV I get the blurb about the tuner not
> > responding and a black screen.
> >
> > The backend log tells me:
> >
> > 2007-02-23 20:47:50.744 DVBChan(1) Error: Unable to find channel in
> > database.
> > 2007-02-23 20:47:50.745 DVBChan(1) Error: SetChannelByString(abc1):
> > Failed to initialize channel options
> > 2007-02-23 20:47:50.746 TVRec(2) Error: Failed to set channel to abc1.
> > 2007-02-23 20:48:05.406 TVRec(2): PauseRecorder() called with no
> recorder
> > 2007-02-23 20:48:05.423 DVBChan(1) Error: Unable to find channel in
> > database.
> > 2007-02-23 20:48:05.425 DVBChan(1) Error: SetChannelByString(five):
> > Failed to initialize channel options
> > 2007-02-23 20:48:05.426 TVRec(2) Error: Failed to set channel to five.
>
> What you did was delete all the correctly configured (except for their
> XMLTVID) channels and leave a lot of unconfigured channels that do
> have XMLTVIDs. All settings need to be consistent - 1 set of valid
> channels with valid XMLTVIDs. I would delete all of your channels and
> then
>
> I have not had to manually scan for and configure channels in
> mythtv-setup since I set my systems up over 2 years ago, but I'm very
> sorry (and annoyed although I do not currently have the skillset to
> fix this) the process is still so user-unfriendly and cumbersome (but
> hey, this is Linux...).
>
> Last year I made available channel/XMLTVID information for all major
> UK providers with the hope that a better solution could be developed,
> but as yet nothing has been released that I am aware of.
>
> Nick
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Something similar  was created a few years ago for myth users in the UK,
where you picked the channel package you had, and it automatically populated
the database, however it was pulled, I think due to conflicts with XMLTV
themselves.

Would it not be possible to knock up a shell script to do an sql import
directly into myth's channel table. We'd still have the problem of
myth-setup trying to configure tv_grab_uk_rt, but it would save loads of
tedious mucking about, although I've only done once or twice in about 4
years.

gary
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