[mythtv-users] 0.21: hdhomerun: how to record UHF HD on, #1 (OTA), VHF on #2 (via cable/QAM)?

Steve Lawrence steve.lawrence at comcast.net
Sat Jan 9 22:18:22 UTC 2010


Apologies for co-opting this thread - I read the digest, and it's a bit 
of a pain for pulling text / replies out of. However I saw this :

>Unfortunately, if your cable provider is like mine (and like most of
>them in the US apparently), when you scan for QAM channels, you get
>channels but few of them have callsigns or XMLTVID values.

> There is no
> way to avoid having to set all these by hand, and the only way I know of
> to figure out which channel is which is to tune them in Live TV.

You need to look into http://scte65scan.sourceforge.net/

That provides callsigns. Then run mythfilldatabase and Bob's yer uncle.

Steve.




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