[mythtv-users] Can't tune digital channels after --do-channels-update

[Bob Sully]

Please disregard...I seem to have it working at the moment.  Ran a regular
mythfilldatabase run again, 2 or 3 times; all of a sudden ... I have all
my channels.

Weird.

Bob

Bob Sully wrote:
> OK...since I never got any help on importing my old digital-channel
> database back in, I did a re-scan the other night, remapped the xmltv IDs.
>  Everything was great at this point - I could watch (and record) all the
> digital channels, switching to an NTSC channel (analog tuner) happened
> immediatel....all was well, except all the digital channels were still
> named  "UNKNOWN xx#y".
>
> So, I ran mythfilldatabase --do-channel-updates to go out and get the
> right info from the video source.
>
> Now...
> (1) I can't tune any of the digital channels - at all.
> (2) I have to manually switch ('c') tuners to get the analog channels
> (this is a pcHDTV-5500 card with both NTSC and dvb tuners).
>
> What happened???  I deleted all the duplicates in sourceID #1 that I could
> find.
>
> This is p*ss*ng me off big-time.  I was so close to having a fully working
> setup.  :-(
>
> TIA
> Bob
>
>
>
> Bob Sully wrote:
>>
>> OK, all of you mySQL gurus...a question (aprdon the long post, but this
>> is
>> kind of involved:
>>
>> I previously had one video source for my three inputs - I was recently
>> advised that this was the wrong way to do this.  So, I set up two new
>> video sources, via Zap2It Labs, so I now have three for this pcHD5500
>> card:
>>
>> (1) Those unencrypted channels which I can get via digital cable on my
>> dvb
>> input (this will also be used for firewire later, since they both can
>> only
>> be used for unencrypted channels);
>>
>> (2) All of the NTSC/analog channels, for the NTSC ("television") input
>> on
>> the card;
>>
>> (3) All channels in my plan, for the s-video input on the card, from the
>> STB.
>>
>> My previous channel database took me a LONG time to clean up, as I had
>> to
>> map all of the unencrypted digital/HDTV channels from the 400 or so that
>> the dvb tuner was able to pick up, most of which were encrypted - these
>> latter I went through and deleted.  Those that remained, I had to go
>> through and remap to the actual channel numbers (e.g. "Unknown 94#2" may
>> have been "KABCDT" (ABC HD) on channel 407.  So, before going to the
>> next
>> step, I backed up the whole machine.
>>
>> Now...when I fetched channels from Zap2It and ran mythfill database, I
>> now
>> had a setup where I couldn't get a lock on any channels on the digital
>> and
>> analog tuners - only the s-video - probably because there were overlaps,
>> dupes, etc.  So, I wound up wiping the new channel DB completely, then
>> ran
>> mythfilldatabase again.  This time, I only had channels from (3) above -
>> which was ALL possible channels - but the dvb and analog tuners had no
>> channels and couldn't tune anything.  I then did a fetch on (2) in
>> mythtv-setup and ran mythfilldatabase again.  Now I have channels from
>> sourceIDs (2) and (3), and the analog tuner now works.
>>
>> Now, my question is:  How do I reimport the digital channels from my
>> original (backup) database back into the new database (so as to get my
>> QAM-256 channels back)?
>>
>> Thanks very much...Bob
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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