[mythtv-users] Howto for properly going from Comcast Analog to Digital

[JS Boyd]

The way I got around this was in 2 steps. First set the visible database 
  field in the channel table to 0 on all the channels that no longer 
exist.

You can also do this the via the 
"Utilities/Setup->Setup->TV_Settings->Recording_Priorities->Set_Channel_Recording_Priorities" 
menu entry. You can select channels from the list and then just uncheck 
the [X]Visible box on the channels you don't want to be visible to MythTV.

Then edit the schedules Direct channel list, so the data for those 
channels no longer downloads. That should do that what you want.

S.


Marc MERLIN wrote:
> So yes, I know they switched back in May (I'm in Cupertino, CA). 
> I kind of hacked things up back then after doing an hdhomerun rescan, and
> hand mapped some channels, but things just aren't that great.
> 
> I want to clean this up now.
> 
> Problem #1:
> I have not found a way to tell myth that my analog channels between 30-ish
> to the end on my analog tuners, are just gone.
> When I try to delete the channels from the channels DB through phpmyadmin,
> it looks like those channels have come back somehow.
> Then, I tried to tell schedulesdirect not to feed me channel data for them,
> but that's no good either because I have 107.5 hand mapped to the xmlid of 
> comedy central which is channel 63 in comcast digital as far as
> scheduledirect is concerned, if I remove that, mythtv stops getting the
> xmlid of comedycentral and stops recording anything on 107.5
> So, how does one handle that?
> 
> Problem #2:
> How can I manually add channels that hdhomerun/mythtv does not thing I have
> without doing a full rescan/remap/rename in mythtv-setup?
> For instance, I scanned my QAM channels by hand on my QAM capable TV, and it
> gets 86.9, but mythfrontend doesn't have any such channel to tune. What
> gives? (similarly, it won't let me tune 85.13 (SciFi argh Syfy). I suppose
> the channels weren't there when I last did a full scan in May, I'm just kind 
> of scared of doing a mythtv-setup full scan and wipe the channel mappings I
> hand entered.
> 
> Question #3:
> If I manually fix channels in the channels DB, do I really need to do it
> twice, once for each of my 2 hdhomerun tuners?
> 
> Question #4:
> Is my answer just to effectively delete all my hdhomerun channels in the
> channelsdb and somehow refeed them through scte65scan's output?
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Comcast_Users_And_scte65scan
> (does that output just take care of fixing channel to xmlid mappings, or
> does it actually recreate the channels if I remove them all?)
> Does scte65scan even include all my channels or just the ones it knows about 
> (which would mean that deleting all my data does not guarantee I'll get it
> all repopulated properly)
> 
> If that helps, I'll paste the manual mapping I did for Comcast, Cupertino,
> CA 95014 (although I'm at the border of south Sunnyvale 94087 and Los Altos)
> 
> Thanks much,
> Marc
> 
> Broadcast:
>  2.1 = KTVU/FOX -> KTVUDT (19571)  -> 702 comcast
>  2.2 = LATV     -> KTVUDT2 (50439)
>  4.2 = KRON/MyNetTV KRONDT2 (20547) > 704 comcast
>  5.1 = KPIX/CBS -> KPIXDT (19572)  -> 705 comcast
>  7.1 = KGO/ABC  -> KGODT (19574)   -> 707 comcast
>  7.2 = ABC Misc  > KGODT2 (30833)
>  7.3 = ABC Weather>KGODT3 (49937)
>  9.1 = KQED/PBS  > KQEDHD (53122)  -> 709 comcast
>  9.2 = KQED/Life > KQEDDT2 (30507) -> 189 comcast
> 11.1 = KNTV/NBC11> KNTVDT (21785)  -> 703 comcast
> 11.2 = NBC Weather>KNTVDT2 (36151)
> 36.1 = C-SPAN/KICU>KICUDT (21650)  -> 706 comcast
> 36.2 = KTVN korean>KICUDT2 (50459) -> 197 comcast
> 44.1 = KBCW 44/cab12>KBCWDT (19575) > 712 comcast
> 
> QAM:
> 60.1 KCSM
> 65.1 ION KKP
> 66.1 KFSF SP
> 68.1 KTLN
> 78.1 ABC Family
> 78.2 Fox News
> 78.3 CMT
> 78.4 Food
> 78.5 MSNBC
> 78.6 Disney
> 78.7 USA
> 78.9 A&E
> 78.10 FX
> 78.11 Lifetime
> 78.12 AMC
> 84.2 TV36
> 84.3 Telemundo
> 84.4 KTEH
> 84.5 Ion TV
> 84.6 Comcast Sportnet
> 84.7 TNT
> 84.8 ESPN
> 84.9 ESPN2
> 84.10 Compcast Sportnet
> 84.11 TBS
> 85.3 Hallmark
> 85.4 TruTV
> 85.13 Syfy (Scifi)	24533
> 86.9 History
> 86.10 Bravo
> 86.11 HGTV
> 86.14 TV Land
> 86.15 SPN
> 88.1 PBS Sprout
> 88.13 Some kind of official state channel?
> 89.2 Bio
> 89.3 History International
> 89.4 LMN
> 89.10 VS
> 89.12 Paid Programming?
> 89.13 College Footbal?
> 90.5 Finance Channel?
> 90.8 WTAL?
> 90.13 G4
> 94.1-14  Sports on demand
> 95.1 TV50
> 95.6  SP
> 95.10-> radio
> 97.1 CCN (de anza)
> 97.3 Weather Channel
> 97.4 CHN Sports
> 97.5 
> 97.6 
> 97.7 Cupertino Meetings
> 97.8 GOD
> 97.9 TV Guide
> 97.10 CCN2
> 98.3 ShopTV
> 99.13 EWTN
> 99.40 Jewlry tV
> 100.1 C-SPAN
> 100.2 C-SPAN2
> 100.3 Animal Planet
> 100.4 Travel
> 100.7 CNN
> 100.8 Golf
> 100.9 HSN
> 100.10 QVC
> 100.12 HLN/CNN News?
> 107.1 BET
> 107.2 Elmo?
> 107.3 Discovery
> 107.4 TLC
> 107.5 Comedy Central
> 107.6 VH1
> 107.7 CN (cartoon network)
> 107.8 Spike 
> 107.9 E!
> 107.10 MTV
> 107.11 Nick
> 118.4 WGN
> 118.7 JTV
> 118.8 C-SPAN3
> 121
> 202.1 2nd mapping of HD channels
> 204.1
> ..
> 220.1
> 244.1 
> 


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