[mythtv-users] Issue with a scanning for moved Portland channel

john sturgeon john.sturgeon at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 21:08:52 UTC 2009


On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:27 AM, John Sturgeon <john.sturgeon at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yep, I upped them to 5 seconds, for both MythTV scan as well as dvb-utils
> 'scan'
>
> --
> John Sturgeon <><
> john.sturgeon at gmail.com
>
> On Sep 20, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
> On 09/20/2009 04:17 PM, John Sturgeon wrote:
>
> A few months ago, one of our local stations (Portland, OR FOX affiliate
> KPTV) changed frequencies, and due to laziness, and lack of interesting
> shows during the summer, I never updated the channel table in MythTV.
>
>
> Well, now that fall is upon us, I'd like to start recording on that
> channel, so I went to my backend setup, and rescanned, but for some reason,
> the new channel is not being detected on the scan.  It signal locks, but
> returns back with Timeout Scanning : no tables.  (as opposed to no signal).
>
>
> I've tried using dvb-utils 'scan' and I can successfully scan all channels,
> but when it hits channel 12, it pauses and finally returns "WARNING: filter
> timeout pid 0x0000" then moves on to the other channels.
>
>
> Anybody have any tips/ideas as to how to diagnose this problem?
>
>
> Did you up the timeouts?  (Go to max to see if that helps, then--if
> so--adjust down as desired.)
>
> Mike
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Solved my own problem.

It seems that the channel in question moved to VHF.  My antennae is an 'old'
HDTV antennae and as such is UHF only... AARGH!!!

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