[mythtv-users] Problems with Channels not getting populated

[Jay Jaeger]

Howdie.  I have been using MythTV since 0.18 (now 0.20) on my own box, and 
never had a lot of trouble with channel listings, including the transition 
to Schedules Direct.

However, I am setting up a box for a friend with 0.21, compiled from 
mythtv-0.21.tar.bz2, using a Hauppague PVR-350, and I cannot get the 
channels to set up probperly from SchedulesDirect -- but I don't believe 
the problem is with SD, per se.  I use an HTTP proxy, it is configured in 
the environment before I start mythtv-setup, and it is able to authenticate 
to SD and download data just fine.  The problem does not appear to be 
anything like that.

(I can add channels manually just fine).

However, when I try and populate the channels for the input source from 
mythtv-setup, I get "No channels are configured to use grabber".  Example:

2009-01-26 13:56:23.242 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2009-01-26 13:56:23.265 Running for sourceid 2 ONLY because --sourceid was 
given
  on command-line
2009-01-26 13:56:23.269 New DB connection, total: 2
2009-01-26 13:56:23.274 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2009-01-26 13:56:23.276 Updating source #2 (HDConverterBox) with grabber 
schedul
esdirect1
2009-01-26 13:56:23.277 No channels are configured to use 
grabber.  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
2009-01-26 13:56:23.278 Grabbing channel data
--2009-01-26 
13:56:23--  http://webservices.schedulesdirect.tmsdatadirect.com/sc
hedulesdirect/tvlistings/xtvdService
Connecting to 192.168.42.1:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Connecting to 192.168.42.1:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/xml]
Saving to: `STDOUT'

^M    [<=>                                    ] 0           --.-K/s
  ^M    [ <=>                                   ] 2,659       14.1K/s   in 0.2s


2009-01-26 13:56:23 (14.1 KB/s) - `-' saved [2659]

2009-01-26 13:56:23.679 New DB DataDirect connection
2009-01-26 13:56:23.681 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2009-01-26 13:56:23.730 DataDirect: Your subscription expires on 01/29/2010 
11:0
8:01 PM
2009-01-26 13:56:23.777 New DB connection, total: 3
2009-01-26 13:56:23.779 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2009-01-26 13:56:23.781 sourceid 2 has lineup type: 
LocalBroadcast  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
2009-01-26 13:56:23.928 Data fetching complete.
2009-01-26 13:56:23.930 DataDirect: Deleting temporary files

I tried the usual tricks:  deleting the tuner (I presume that is why this 
is now sourceid 2) and re-adding, disconnecting the tuner/input connection 
mapping, and going back to the main menu of mythtv-setup and trying 
again.  I searched with Google and saw something like this for firewire 
connectec tuners back in 0.21, but this setup is virtually the same as my 
0.20 box.

It might help if I new what it is trying to tell me when it says "No 
channels are configured to use grabber".

The schedule on SD has some channels disabled -- could that be an 
issue?  Is there some way to get mythtv-setup to tell me more verbosely 
where the pain is?  Somewhere where it logs?    When mythtv-setup runs the 
"internal" fetcher, what program runs (I could hack the source and tell it 
to start logging to figure this out, if needs be).

In the database, in table videosources we see:

   2 | HDConverterBox | schedulesdirect1 | <user> | default   | PC:53717 | 
<password>  |      0 |

Table channel is empty.

Table cardinput has

| cardinputid | cardid | sourceid | inputname | externalcommand | 
preference | shareable | tunechan | startchan  | freetoaironly | 
diseqc_port | diseqc_pos | lnb_lof_switch | lnb_lof_hi | lnb_lof_lo | 
displayname      | radioservices | dishnet_eit | recpriority | quicktune |
+-------------+--------+----------+-----------+-----------------+------------+-----------+----------+------------+---------------+-------------+------------+----------------+------------+------------+------------------+---------------+-------------+-------------+-----------+
|           4 |      1 |        2 | Tuner 
1   |                 |          0 | N         |          | Please add 
|             1 |        NULL |       NULL |       11700000 |   10600000 
|    9750000 | HD Converter Box |             1 |           0 |           0 
|         0 |
+-------------+--------+----------+-----------+-----------------+------------+-----------+----------+------------+---------------+-------------+------------+----------------+------------+------------+------------------+---------------+-------------+-------------+-----------+

Note that originally I had set this up as tuned to channel 4, but I removed 
that when I started having problems, to see if that might help (it didn't).

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalp.   8^)

JRJ