[mythtv-users] Program Guide Showing Unknown

[R. G. Newbury]

James Oltman 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!


If you use the channel editor in the frontend to probe the channel, you 
should be aware that myth must use the same callsign as Schedules Direct 
, for that to work. So you may scan a channel, and the station calls it 
WCCU-HD. You need to change that (in the editor) to WCCUDT before 
'probing'. If you already have the xmltvid and use that, then everything 
will be filled in as SD likes it. You can get the xmltvid by doing a 
'mouseover' on your SD lineup page.

I strongly suspect that most mythfilldatabase failures during setup are 
do to this sort of mis-match. Thereafter, running mythfilldatabase with 
--remove-new-channels seems to be a requirement for cable setups, but 
not otherwise.

Geoff