[mythtv-users] New Channel Scanner is really annoying

greg greg12866 at nycap.rr.com
Fri Nov 20 15:48:02 UTC 2009


Mitch Gore wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Devin Heitmueller 
> <devin.heitmueller at gmail.com <mailto:devin.heitmueller at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:27 AM,  <stefan_jones at comcast.net
>     <mailto:stefan_jones at comcast.net>> wrote:
>     > Oh, for cripes sake!
>     >
>     > I've done four or five scans this evening.
>     >
>     > Stations which formally were recognized and included in the
>     channel lineup
>     > are skipped.
>     >
>     > A carefully edited channels.conf doesn't seem to make a difference.
>     >
>     > What is this cryptic crap about giving conflicting channels a
>     new number,
>     > and then having the new number rejected?
>     >
>     > What do I care about encoding types?
>     >
>     > The choices for "off the air channels" are ignore, delete, or make
>     > invisible. What if I WANT them?
>     >
>     > I finally used my channels.conf to guide me through adding some
>     transports.
>     > Then I did a transport scan, and got my clear QAM local channels
>     set.
>
>     Patches are always welcome from those who are the most significantly
>     bothered by the state of the code.
>
>     Devin
>
>
>
> Agree with you.  I have had .22 channel scanner issues since I got 
> cable.  I have similar erros for QAM scanning.
>
> I opened a ticket but it was rejected as not an error.  But it clearly 
> is.  To get around it I use my HDHR, the windows gui, and 
> SiliconDust's lineup server and manually enter channels into the MySQL 
> DB.  Its really frustrating as it worked perfect in .21.
>
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6867
>
> Not having the skills of programming to fix it, I really get a bad 
> taste in my mouth.  
>
> GL,
> -- 
> Mitchell
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Do a regular back-up of your database,then the next time you update,just 
import the old database and you will be good to go...Just yesterday I 
had a problem where  my HD-PVR got un-plugged..This caused the tuner 
assignments to change..Five minutes to restore the DB and I was back in 
business..Thanks to Mike Dean..
  I will admit the new scanner is a handful,especially if you don't know 
what it's asking for when the scan is done,but it does work.. I just 
choose ignore and continue.. When it's done all my channels are in the DB...
  


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