[mythtv-users] New release of scte65scan (mainly for Comcast users)

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> With that much done on a brand new server is it still necessary to do
>> a scan of all the QAM256/QAM64 channels as per the older MYthTV.org
>> documentation? Or is it enough to scan with scte65scan and then import
>> the data?
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> In playing with the scan program, I got the simplest/cleanest results
> by creating an "empty" video source, which was associated with a
> lineup at Schedules Direct, with with no scan and without fetching the
> channels from the listings source.  I then exited mythtv-setup,
> overriding the warning about the lineup having no channels.  I ran
> scte65scan with the "new" mode, specifying lineup 1 (which is the
> "empty" one I just created), ie:
>
> ./scte65scan -p -V 0x0bb9 -f 3,1
> /usr/share/dvb/atsc/us-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM256 >
> Mythscan.sql
>
> I then imported the resulting SQL:
>
> mysql -u root -p mythconverg < Mythscan.sql
>
> As a final little step, I went back in to mythtv-setup and set the
> starting channels for my QAM tuners to a now-valid channel.  Ran
> mythfilldatabase, and was done.
>
> Robert

Thanks. Exactly what I decided to try. I got all the channels in the
program guide but no program data. I'm running mythfilldatabase
--refresh-all again to see if that fills things in.

Cheers,
Mark