[mythtv-users] Comcast KNOWS Myths HDHomerun Channel Scanner is broken

[boehm100 at comcast.net]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ryan patterson" <ryan.goat at gmail.com> 
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org> 
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 6:40:20 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Comcast KNOWS Myths HDHomerun Channel Scanner is broken 

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com> wrote: 
> I'm curious as to the subject text of your email, which I didn't find 
> in the body of your email. 
> 
> "Comcast KNOWS Myths HDHomerun Channel Scanner is broken" 
> 
> Can you explain? 
> 
> -- 
> Brad Fuller 
> 

I think he is suggesting that comcast is trying to hide the channels 
from mythtv in order to force him to rent a proprietary cable box to 
access the channels he use to tune no problem. 

But I agree his subject line is misleading. All together user support 
message lists/forums tend to have horrible subject lines. This is 
better then average in the misleading subjects department (but it 
stillhas more then it should). 

And to answer the original poster, the discrepancies between the 
hdhomerun_config scan and the mythtv-setup scan are well known. There 
is not a good solution that I know of. Some users have written a 
python script to manual insert channels into the mythconverge database 
without using mythtv-setup. Check the silicon dust forum. 

-- 

To defend myself I had two reasons for creating such a openly loaded subject line.  First to get attention.  This list get a lot of volume.  

My second reason is that there is a VERY good possibility that my subject line is spot on.  It is HIGHLY convenient that ALL of these 'extended basic' channels are hidden from MythTVs channels scan.  Not just some but ALL.  While the FFC mandated channels are all perfectly viable by Myth channel scanner.  Yes the subject is slightly over the top but I don't think it that far off.

Jon