[mythtv-users] 0-24-fixes EIT no data

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Apr 8 01:46:53 UTC 2011


On 04/07/2011 08:40 PM, Andy Colson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 04/06/2011 10:03 PM, Andy Colson wrote:
>>> Hi all.  My cable provider dropped their analog channels and went digital.
>>>
>>> This is over cable (not dish).  I figured this would be a good time to
>>> upgrade to 0.24.
>>>
>>> I have an HVR-1250.  Myth see's it, and I ran the scan for channels
>>> thing in mythtv-setup, and it found lots of channels.  I can go to
>>> live tv and they come in fine.
>>>
>>> There are three channels, 11_1, 11_2 and 11_3 that kinda seem to get
>>> EIT data.  Nothing else does.
>> ...
>>> I'd be greatefull if someone who understood all these
>>> terms/acronyms/junk could point me in the right direction.
>> Trying not to start any wars, nor be accused of telling you that you
>> have to use Schedules Direct, nor offend anyone's sensibilities in any
>> other way, I'll simply say that your cable company likely doesn't want
>> you to be able to get good listings data off their lines--they rent STBs
>> to allow you to see listings.  Your description of what you see sounds
>> like exactly what I'd expect you to see with a properly working MythTV
>> system using cable TV in the US.
>
> Hum...  SchedulesDirect has a broadcast selection that is very close
> to the new digital.  Except the channels are different, and fewer off
> them.  Would there be a way I could hookup schedulesDirect but kinda
> alias the channels to something else?
>
> SchedulesDirect thinks 75 = TCM and 70 = SYFY But I have them as 51_15
> = TCM and 54_21 = SYFY.

Yeah.

Assuming you're using firewire or analog tuning (with an STB and 
external channel change script), you just need to edit the frequency ID 
for the channel so that it issues the appropriate channel change command.

If you have a digital tuner for MythTV and are using clear QAM capture, 
you have to scan for channels, /then/ map schedules direct data to the 
found-in-scan channels, anyway, so you just map it properly in the first 
place (i.e. put the xmltvid for TCM in the channel that is TCM, etc.).

If Schedules Direct is missing any channels (usually local-interest 
channels that don't report their listings to TMS), you can enable EIT on 
those channels (as long as you don't enable it on any channel for which 
you use Schedules Direct data), but, as I mentioned before, I'd be very 
surprised if your cable co is actually sending any usable EIT data.

Mike


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list