[mythtv-users] Program Guide Showing Unknown
Ryan Steffes
rbsteffes at gmail.com
Tue Sep 25 04:59:01 UTC 2007
On 9/24/07, James Oltman <cnlibmyth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/24/07, James Oltman <cnlibmyth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have created a test SD account and selected only my OTA HD channels. I
> have run the scan channels on my HDHR. It has deteced FOX and a church
> channel with several sub channels. However, there's only data for the fox
> station in my program listing and web guide and non of the other channels I
> have setup in SD, but only rarely get due to my OTA setup. How can I ensure
> that the data for all the channels I have marked in SD are in my program
> guide? Thanks for the help!
> >
> > Jim
> >
>
> More info. I had setup the channels that I wasn't receiving (but sometimes
> could due to the signal bouncing off the troposphere) in the Channel Editor.
> I set them up as the correct channel.subchannel with the correct digital
> channel ID (ie, digital channel 57 is 25.1 NBC). I believe I got them setup
> correctly. I ran a mythfilldatabase and the data wasn't being pulled down.
> I was getting these errors:
>
> 2007-09-24 19:35: 45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WCCU' (WCCU).
> 2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WEEK' (WEEK).
> 2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WBUI' (WBUI).
> 2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WHOI' (WHOI).
> 2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WMBD' (WMBD).
> 2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WWTO' (WWTO).
> 2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WYZZ' (WYZZ).
> 2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WTVP' (WTVP).
> 2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WCCUDT (WCCU-DT)'
> (WCCUDT).
> 2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WYZZDT2 (WYZZ-DT2'
> (WYZZDT2).
>
> So I went searching around and found this command.
>
> mythfilldatabase --do-channel-updates
>
> That seemed to populate my database with the correct information. However,
> the times seemed to vary on when the update took place. Some stations
> started receiving listings for the 10 o clock hour, some the 8 pm hour. Is
> this something I'll need to do everytime a mythfilldatabase is run? Or is
> this because the tuners can't receive a signal on the channels when the
> mythfilldatabase is run? Thanks!
>
> Jim
>
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Once the ids are correctly associated with the channel, you should be
fine from here on out. Try mythfilldatabase --refresh-all to see if
fills in the rest.
Ryan
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