[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun Channel Scan Issue

greg greg12866 at nycap.rr.com
Mon Sep 1 18:24:20 UTC 2008


Ryan Belcher wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've seen lots of Google results regarding channel scanning issues with
> the HDHR and MythTv.  I recently got a HDHR and I'm running into the
> problem full force when connected to my cable provider (Charter Atlanta
> -- Gwinnett county).  I've tried increasing the scan timeouts (up to 45
> seconds) and there's only one channel that gets the right
> identification, on and off, out of about 47 channels it detects as being
> non-encrypted.  Otherwise, it marks the channels as "91#[stream number]"
> (ex. 91#33).  These channels start at 91#4 and go up to 91#51 sequentially.
>
> The HDHR software does detect the channel info properly when used
> standalone. 
>
> The two most prevalent workarounds I've seen are increasing the scan
> timeouts (seemingly ineffective for me), and scripting a DB fix with the
> correct info.
>
> I'm using the most recent SVN trunk 18240. 
>
> Does anyone have a fairly robust way of getting this to work right? 
> I've got no problem trying to tweak the DB, but I'm at a loss as to how
> one goes about getting the right channel frequency, and ID information
> collected and synchronized to fix the database by hand.
>
> Thanks all!
>
> Ryan
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>   
If you need the freq id you can get them from Schedules Direct, if you 
are a subscriber... Here is an example of mine....You find this info 
under Report...

1806     34968     WRGBDT     WRGBDT (WRGB-DT)
1808     45777     WXXADT     WXXADT (WXXA-DT)
1810     32470     WTENDT     WTENDT (WTEN-DT)
1811     32464     WMHTDT     WMHTDT (WMHT-DT)
1813     36085     WNYTDT     WNYTDT (WNYT-DT)
1815     34986     WCWNDT     WCWNDT (WCWN


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